If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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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?
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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
            ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+----
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Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
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A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
            ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+----
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Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
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I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.
            ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+----
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The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.
            ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+----
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Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?
            ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+----
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
            ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+----
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If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
            ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+----
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Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.
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Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice?
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