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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

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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

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

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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

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