"O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if,
to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms,
wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an
aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any
revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power,
inflicted by those who had no power at all?" --Patrick Henry, speech in
the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
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