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Quotes about Rebellion


Thy steady temper, Portius,
Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar,
In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

Joseph Addison

We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.

Miscellaneous

Only the spirit of rebellion craves for happiness in this life. What right have we human beings to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Appendix

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

George Bernard Shaw

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Unattributed Author

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.

Samuel Dickinson Burchard

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Unattributed Author

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, Meeting the check of such another day; And since this business so fair is done, Let us not leave till all our own be won.

William Shakespeare

Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith.

William Shakespeare

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

James Branch Cabell

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

Thomas Jefferson

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

Scottish Proverb

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

H. L. Mencken

A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.

Thomas Fuller

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