evidence: Talk to your lawyer First: Sometimes disputes are intractable, highly charged and complicated. We turn to law to resolve such disputes when we cannot resolve them for ourselves. The law is the primary instrument of government and as George Washington said: "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force! Yet the American passion for liberty has its context in sovereignty. The commands of the sovereign are its laws. My legal advice was always: obey the law and pay your taxes.