“Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.” -Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father, First Inaugural

“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant…can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.” -John Adams,  American Founding Father, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government

“We fear God; we look up with awe to kings; with affection to parliaments; with duty to magistrates; with reverence to priests; and with respect to nobility.Why? Because when such ideas are brought before our minds, it is natural to be so affected; because all other feelings are false and spurious, and tend to corrupt our minds, to vitiate our primary morals, to render us unfit for rational liberty; and by teaching us a servile, licentious, and abandoned insolence, to be our low sport for a few holidays, to make us perfectly fit for, and justly deserving of, slavery, through the whole course of our lives.” – Edmund Burke, A notable European opponent of American Founding Father Thomas Paine