It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanit

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

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

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. – Chinese Proverb

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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