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Appropriate quote for today's world, its origin goes back to 1830 or earlier.

" There are three and only three ways, to reform our congressional legislation. The representative, judicial and belligerent principle alone can be relied on; or as they are more familiarly called, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartouch box. "

Quote Investigator: The earliest strong match located by QI appeared in the “Niles’ Weekly Register” on October 9, 1830. Stephen Decatur Miller had recently delivered a speech in the Sumter district of South Carolina which included the following. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/04/09/ballot/

I learn it this way:

“There are four great protections for our liberties: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. If you lose the last, the first three won’t mean a thing.”

That quote is often attributed to Stephen Douglass, the freed slave who became quite a political philosopher later in life. Snowflake liberals have an extremely hard time rebutting that argument when it's coming from one of their legendary heroes! We've lost all of those options but the last one, since graveyard voters and wetbacks have stuffed the ballot box, and liberal judges have made our court system an exercise in futility. Lock and load- - - - -keep that bullet box filled to overflowing!
Jerry