Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.