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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do them good, As doctors cure by letting blood.

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

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.

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

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

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

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.

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

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

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

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

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.