If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respe

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. – Louis D. Brandeis

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I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. – Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. – Clarence Darrow

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

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

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