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"That whenever any form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or abolish it, and to institute New Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as
to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
~Thomas Jefferson
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and
having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing
government and to form one that suits them better."
~ Abraham Lincoln
13 January 1848
Congressional Globe, Appendix
1st Session 30th Congress, page 94
"This country, with its institutions,
belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of
the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of
amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
~ Abraham Lincoln
First Inaugural Address
Monday, March 4, 1861
"If I thought this war was to abolish
slavery, I would resign my commission, and offer my sword to the other
side."
~ Ulysses S. Grant, USA
"If [the Declaration of Independence]
justifies the secession from the British empire of 3,000,000 of
colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession
of 5,000,000 of Southrons from the Federal Union in 1861."
~ New York Tribune, December 17,
1860
"The American people, North and South, went
into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came
out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back."
~ H. L. Mencken
"People
separated from their history are easily persuaded."
~ Karl Marx
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