"all
experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their
future security." - Thomas Jefferson -
"As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles". - Bertrand Russell
"What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected ... before a drop of blood was shed." - John Adams (1735-1826) - letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 24, 1815
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