“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.”
—JOHN ADAMS
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
—THOMAS JEFFERSON
“[A] little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
—THOMAS JEFFERSON
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
—THOMAS JEFFERSON
“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 their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”
—ABRAHAM LINCOLN