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Our whole system of self-government will crumble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce or citizens elect what laws they will support.
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
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If citizens do not like a law, their duty as honest men and women is to discourage its violation; their right is openly to work for its repeal.