I don't think I can do any better than last year's inspirational post, so I suggest enjoyable re-reading it.

If you'd like to read more about secession, independence, federalism, revolution, non-territorial secession, and related matters, go check out Secession Week at Let A Thousand Nations Bloom.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.