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&quot;Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former, because real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.&quot; --Thomas Jefferson: Report on Spanish Convention, 1792.<br />
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&nbsp;&quot;If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.&quot; --Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 1786. ME 5:444</span></div>
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&quot;The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.&quot; --Thomas Jefferson to Ezra Stiles, 1786. ME 6:25</span></div>
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&quot;The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here [in Europe].&quot; --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:57</span></div>
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&quot;The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 12pt">No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.&quot; --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. ME 6:391</span></div>
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&nbsp;&quot;[An occasional insurrection] will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.&quot; --Thomas Jefferson to T. B. Hollis, July 2, 1787. (*) ME 6:155</span></div>
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&nbsp;&quot;Cherish... the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them.&quot; --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:58<br />
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</span><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 14pt">&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 12pt">&quot;The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards;</span></div>
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&nbsp;and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 12pt">&nbsp;It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.&quot;<br />
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</span><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 12pt">&nbsp;&quot;It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.&quot;<br />
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</span><u><span style="line-height: 115%; color: red; font-size: 20pt">&nbsp;John Locke</span></u><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 10pt"><br />
&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 12pt">Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 12pt">It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.<br />
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><u><span style="line-height: 115%; color: red; font-size: 20pt">James Madison</span></u><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 10pt"><br />
&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 12pt">&quot;It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #444444; font-size: 12pt">The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents.</span></div>
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&nbsp;They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle.&quot;</span></div>
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&nbsp;&quot;The people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.&quot;</span></div>