Aristocracy Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

— H. Rap Brown

Rebellion never goes without consequences.

— Andy Stanley

Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.

— Edgar A Suter

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

— Luc de Clapiers

Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.

— Victor Davis Hanson

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but…

— Baron de Montesquieu

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

— Edmund Burke

Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

— Omar al-Bashir

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…

— Thomas Carlyle

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires…

— Mahatma Gandhi