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Yuri Tarditt... 

Thoreau is one of the greats! Here is the mother lode of bite size postables by Mr, Liberty himelf, TJ. href=http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeffcont.htm>TJ "Manfully maintain our good old principle of cherishing and fortifying the rights and authorities of the people in opposition to those who fear them and who wish to take all power from them and to transfer all to Washington." --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1826. FE 10:378................ "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356............ ,Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., securing inherent and inalienable rights, with powers derived from the consent of the governed], 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: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:315............ "I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39.................. Edward Abbey has some good stuff as well! "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey