"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