"Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing 
Government, they can exercise their constitutional 
right of amending it or their revolutionary right 
to dismember or overthrow it."

President Abraham Lincoln, "First Inaugural Address" 
(available at http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres31.html)

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having 
the power, have the right to rise up, and shake 
off the existing government, and form a new one 
that suits them better. This is a most valuable,--
-a most sacred right---a right, which we hope and 
believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this 
right confined to cases in which the whole people 
of an existing government, may choose to exercise 
it."

(Speech in the United States House of Representatives, Jan. 12, 1848)

[MC5 comments: If Lincoln was the quintessential American, then
there is no less American people in the world than the 
population of the united $tates. Today, the U.S. Government
refers to revolutionaries everywhere as "terrorists"
with the overwhelming support of the population.]