I suggest taking the rest of the day to mourn and to pray. Tomorrow the war begins. Find your place in that fight. It will be long and it will be costly. But we will fight like hell to restore our republic and the constitution.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.