An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

I would rather be right than President.