“What do we mean by the Revolution? -The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people.”
-John Adams
"Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it."
-John Adams