I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolera

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. – Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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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

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

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

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