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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. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
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The law is the public conscience, by which he hath already undertaken to be guided.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.