When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.

Do right and risk the consequences.

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.