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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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

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

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

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

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