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Rebellion: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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.— BUTLER — Miscellaneous Thoughts. L. 181.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.— CARLYLE — Essays. Goethe's Works.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Inscription on a Cannon near which the ashes of President John Bradshaw were lodged, on the top of hill near Martha Bay in Jamaica. Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, Meeting the check of such another day.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 41.

Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,— Shakespeare — King John. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 11.

Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus. The most seditious is the most cowardly.— TACITUS — Annales. IV. 34.

Sævitque animis ignobile vulgus, Jamque faces et saxa volant. The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly.— VIRGIL — Eneid. I. 149.