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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: inscription on cannon near ashes of John Bradshaw on top of hill near Martha Bay, Jamaica, it is als
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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.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 181)
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and
deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve
rebelling against.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (King Henry at V, iv)
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Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,
And welcome home again discarded faith.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Melun at V, iv)
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What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Author: Albert Camus
Source: None
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I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
Author: Madonna
Source: None
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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.
Author: Clarence Darrow
Source: None
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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.
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
Source: None
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
Author: James Branch Cabell
Source: None
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A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: None
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Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
Author: Scottish Proverb
Source: None
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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.
Author: Richard Roberts
Source: None
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
Author: H. L. Mencken
Source: None
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A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: None
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An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Author: Henry Clay
Source: None
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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.
Author: Clarence Darrow
Source: None
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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