It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established au

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

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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. – Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. – Chinese Proverb

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

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. – Hermann Keyserling

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