"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the
people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary
of the existing government, they can excercise their
constitutional right of amending it, or excercise
their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
(President Abraham Lincoln)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility
of servitude better than the animating contest of
freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your
counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which
feed you. May your chain be set lightly upon you and
may posterity forget ye were our countrymen."
(Mr. Samuel Adams)
The Crisis, Thomas Paine
THESE are the times that try men's souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
"peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none." -- Thomas Jefferson
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