1. Physical offense is never justified.
2. Words are the weapons for individual liberty / self-government reeducation.
3. Constitutionally righteous defense is always justified.
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education, which is the true corrective of abuses of federal power.
Thomas Jefferson letter to William Charles Jarvis, September 28, 1820
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