"Governments having failed the people, the people are……" — Benjamin Franklin

"Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse."

— Benjamin Franklin

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