It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of

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

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

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

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