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

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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

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No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. – Hermann Keyserling

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

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