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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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