Quotes:
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constution but to overthrow the men that pervert the Constution."
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States."
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
“If aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges.”
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