Resistance
“The resistance to bad Laws, is the most virtuous form of patriotism.”
My distant cousin, Richard Carlile ~ publisher of Thomas Paine, correspondent of Thomas Jefferson ~ hailed as England's ‘Father of Freedom of the Press’ ~ spent many years in prison for his independent journalism, and his refusal to publish the government's lies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carlile
The quote that opens my post, was originally spoken by Richard at a public protest rally ~ though I much prefer the final version he put to print: “The most virtuous patriotism is a resistance to bad Laws.”
For some reason the link in the above post doesn't work. 🤔 This does tho:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carlile