Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCQuotes
An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871