REBELLION

Related Subjects: Anarchy, Discord, Revolution

1. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.—Anonymous
   

2. The devil was the first o' th' name
   From whom the race of rebels came.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Miscellaneous Thoughts
   

3. Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.—CARLYLE, Essays
   

4. A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.—JEFFERSON, On Shays' Rebellion
   

5. O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
   How will the Future reckon with this Man?
   How answer his brute question in that hour
   When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world?
   How will it be with kingdoms and with kings—
   With those who shaped him to the thing he is-
   When this dumb terror shall reply to God,
   After the silence of the centuries?—EDWIN MARKHAM, The Man With the Hoe
   

6. Life was not gentle to him,
   And the elements so mixed in him
   That he made warfare on life,
   In the which he was slain.—EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology
   

7. It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few
   determined leaders and a sound cause.—H. L. MENCKEN, Prejudices
   

8. Quenching the flame of bold rebellion
   Even with the rebels' blood.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

9. Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
   Meeting the check of such another day.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

10. Rebellion, flat rebellion!—SHAKESPEARE, King John