The right of peaceable assembly and of petition É is the constitutional substitute for revolution.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.