"There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world"
Thomas Jefferson, 1826

"Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. Let every order and degree
among the people rouse their attention and animate their resolution."
John Adams, 1765

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,
and to provide new Guards for their future security."
U.S. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776