Thursday, July 18, 2013

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law

“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”

~Henry David Thoreau, Essays on Civil Disobedience

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