Some quotes to think about.

If you expect a nation to be
ignorant and free, you expect
what never was and can never be.
Thomas Jefferson

"We, the people, are the rightful masters of both
Congress and the courts; not to overthrow the
Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert
the Constitution."

Abraham Lincoln

FREEDOM
IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE
SECURED IN ANY ONE
MOMENT OF TIME.
WE MUST STRUGGLE
TO PRESERVE IT EVERY DAY.
AND FREEDOM IS NEVER
MORE THAN ONE
GENERATION AWAY FROM
EXTINCTION.
RONALD REAGAN

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.

George Washington

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt

Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

John Adams, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lighlty upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson