When the people fear the government there is tyrany. When the government fears the people there is freedom.
- Thomas Jefferson

The Tree of Liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots, it is nature's manure.
-Thomas Jefferson

Ladies and gentlemen, the tree of liberty thirsts. The tyrants run amok. If not now, when? If not us, who?

My fellow Americans, from sea to shining sea, ring the bell of liberty.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.