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

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

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

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