Frederick Douglass, George Mason, Walter Lippmann

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"He who would be free must strike the first blow."

-- Frederick Douglass

[Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/F...lass.Quote.C9CD

 

 

"Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, indefeasible right, to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public Weal."

-- George Mason

(1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/G...ason.Quote.23AB

 

 

"A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant."

-- Walter Lippmann

(1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator

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