"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
"There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity."
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Source: Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”
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