"Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God."
~Benjamin Franklin
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds
~Samuel Adams
"If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtainedwe must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us."
~Patrick Henry
"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; 'tis dearness only that gives everything 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."
~Thomas Paine
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
~John Adams