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"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849) - Thoreau, Henry David | WIST Quotations
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. A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal,…