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Calvin Coolidge on Justice

1872–1933 United States

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It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. That state is most fortunate in its form of government which has the aptest instruments for the discovery of law.

Speech to the Massachusetts State Senate (1914)

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