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Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Law, Numbers
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.47, Courier Corporation
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?