"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
— The Constitution for the united States
(Source: usconstitution.net)
"We must go forward cautiously and consolidate each acquired positon, because already the inferior social stratum of society is giving unceasing signs of agitation.
Let us make use of the courts… When, through the law’s intervention, the common people shall have lost their homes, they will be more easy to control and more easy to govern, and they shall not be able to resits the strong hand of the Government actiong in accordance with … the control of the leaders of finance"
— United States Bankers magazine, 1892
(Source: michaeljournal.org)
"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."
— Andrew Jackson
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
— Thomas Jefferson
(Source: brainyquote.com)
"The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution."
— Abraham Lincoln
(Source: constitution.org)