Revolution Quote by James A. Michener

“Richmond lost his Virginia when he was 1776.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“The Rebellion was gone, and a new government grew swiftly—if clumsily—in its place.”

— Chuck Wendig

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

— Edmund Burke

“I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.”

— Colin Woodard

“. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty.”

— Federico Mangahas

“don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.”

— B. Traven

“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. —Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to James Madison” (1787)”

— Raine Miller

“Rebellion without reprisal is one of democracy's perks, right?”

— Laura Kelly

“King will never accept an uprising King.”

— RAGHUVEER MAGANTI

“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in…

— Thomas Jefferson