Another quote goes well with this, "when the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. I think Benjamin Franklin said that. It means our founding fathers gave us everything they could think of so we could preserve this Republic. Not a democracy. This quote says, if the people feel their free land is being taken away by the government, we have the right to take it back. It is expected periodically so the elected always know they work for us. Sadly, the government sponsored assassination of JFK was the beginning of the end