Well, I'm with Abe Lincoln on this one-

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty...where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.(Aug 24, 1855)

and

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.(Jan 3, 1838)

Looks like we're well on the way.