Citizenry Quote by Lawrence Hunter

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

— Abraham Lincoln

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.

— Ron Paul

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain…

— Dionysius of Halicarnassus

“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.”

— victor hugo

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

— Pearl S. Buck

...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if…

— Alexander Hamilton

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to…

— Thomas Jefferson

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And…

— William Kunstler

“Although we have not been overrun by an invading army, or experienced an overt coup d’etat, the Constitutional government of the United States, formed…

— Joseph Befumo

There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties - hard one to stomach…

— Bret Stephens

“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it…

— Hannah Arendt