https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28281910/fourth-of-july-mercy-otis-warren-tyranny-donald-trump/

«“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.”

“We are not descended from fearful men,” as Edward R. Murrow said at the conclusion of his broadcast takedown of Joe McCarthy. “Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular.”

We are not descended from fearful women, either. Ms. Warren was fed up, and an empire came down.»