Memorable Obedience To Government Quotes

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"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the citizen's knowledge."
Thomas Jefferson
"Law is order, and good law is good order."
Aristotle
"The basis of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the governed."
John Locke
"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
Confucius
"A society without order is no society at all."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The first duty of a man is to think for himself."
José Martí
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"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
Benjamin Franklin
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
Abraham Lincoln
"The art of governing consists simply of being honest and of using common sense."
Thomas Jefferson
"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
P. J. O'Rourke
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
Tacitus
"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master."
George Washington
"The ultimate authority resides in the people."
James Madison
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Where law ends, tyranny begins."
William Pitt the Elder
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
Edmund Burke
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
Henry David Thoreau
"If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law."
Henry David Thoreau
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"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
Mahatma Gandhi
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire
"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
Benjamin Franklin

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