"When the last dutiful & humble petition from Congress received no other Answer than declaring us Rebels, and out of the King’s protection, I from that Moment look’d forward to a Revolution & Independence, as the only means of Salvation; and will risque the last Penny of my Fortune, & the last Drop of my Blood upon the Issue." - George Mason, Oct. 2, 1778 "Unless the people, through united action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish ambitions." -Calvin Coolidge October 1932 I'm interested in saving my country. I'm interested in re-establishing the freedoms, liberties and values that our country was founded upon. I'm interested in the U.S. Constitution and all the ideals and beliefs of a "free man" that went into it's creation. "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword, the other is by debt." - John Adams "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. " – Gen Douglas MacArthur "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." – Mark Twain "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." - Abraham Lincoln "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787 "The people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it" - Abraham Lincoln When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” - Thomas Jefferson "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God!" - Thomas Jefferson No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. -Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775 "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that his people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." — Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. William S. Smith, 1787