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Rebellion Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,…
- I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
- On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that…
- I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in…
- A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
- [The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall…
- Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
- A little rebellion is a good thing.
- I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the…
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- Rebellions of the belly are the worst. — Francis Bacon
- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold… — Abigail Adams
- Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
- Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The… — Ezra Taft Benson
- I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. — David Byrne
- Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. — James Branch Cabell
- The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act… — Albert Camus
- Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus
- Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. — Albert Camus
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