~ God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience. ~
~ A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. ~
~ Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. ~
~ Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ~
~ Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself. ~
~ When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience ~
~ Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason. ~
~ A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. ~
~ Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. ~
~ Obedience sums up our entire duty. ~
~ No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. ~
~ Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason. ~