Quotes About Rebellion

Daniel Shays, a farmer struggling to keep his property, convinced neighbors that Boston legislators were colluding with judges and lawyers to raise property taxes and foreclose when farmers found it impossible to pay.

Behind them in America, rebel torches had set skies aglow in western Pennsylvania to protest a federal tax on whiskey.

Indeed, in 1794, George Washington had not only authorized sending national troops into battle against Pennsylvanians resisting the whiskey tax, he had taken to the field to lead the forces himself. Later, Andrew Jackson had acted boldly to crush South Carolina's attempt to nullify the 1832 tariff.

Stan, don't let them tell you what to do!

His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.

The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.

I stamp out vast empires. I crush palaces in my rigid hands. I harden my heart against churches. I blot out cemetaries. I feed the people with stinging nettles. I resurrect madness. I thrust my naked sword between the ribs of the world. I murder the world!

Liberation by destruction was on the way! We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

Don't even try your bullshit with us...! You psycho idiot, certifiable, father-complex, bitch!

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

Did I mention the gold piercing of a snake he had through the head of his penis? I'd never seen one before. I asked what you were supposed to do with it. And he said, "Start by making friends.

making sense? what fun is there in making sense?"~ Discord

Resistance is its own reward.

I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.

I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven?

Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender !

It looked like his ponytail had revolted against him," said Bramble.

Wait - Miss Bramble-" "Don't call me that!" said Azalea. Something, perhaps hurt, flickered through Mr. Bradford's soft eyes. "Princess Bramble," he said.

Don't you DARE tell me how to eat a chocolate!

Refusing to smile, refusing to agree, refusing to comply: These things mean that you are difficult and you want to be unhappy.