For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes. Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty. It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of a host of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation.
Many people are afraid of freedom.
They are conditioned to be afraid of it. Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.