Army Quote by Charles James Fox

“Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.”

— Edmund Burke

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

— Lillian Hellman

“True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool…

— Criss Jami

One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

— Edmund Burke

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of…

— Samuel Adams

In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people…

— Pope Pius VI

If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

— Laozi

“Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no…

— Paul Collier

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

— Albert Camus

“those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle,” Burke writes.”

— Yuval Levin