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Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.   Beecher, Henry Ward

Source: HENRY WARD BEECHER, Civil Law and the Sabbath, sermon delivered December 3, 1882.Plymouth Pulpit, vol. 5 , p. 416 . · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887) was a theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman and reformer, and author who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the eighth of nine children of Lyman Beecher by his first wife (and the eighth of thirteen children in all). One of his elder sisters was Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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