The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. They are the lovers of law and order who observe the law when the government breaks it. […] Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discern only law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

Pencils made by the pencil factory
of John Thoreau