Rebellion

Rebellion


"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."
Thomas Jefferson

1743-1826. Third president of the United States (1801-1809) and author of the Declaration of Independence.

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

Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer.

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."

Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist.

"A riot is the language of the unheard."

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) American black leader.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Thomas Jefferson

"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

"Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings."

John Dryden (1631-1700) British poet, dramatist and critic.


"A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist.

"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.

"And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system."

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Thirty-fifth President of the USA

"In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss-U.S. scientist.

"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."

David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, economist and historian.

"Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

If you've read this far and you are concerned and fed up with the state of this country and the continued "gutting" of the US Constitution. If you're tired of the same old rhetoric by the democrats and the republicans (politicians), then please absorb some of the quotes made by famous men. Copy and and paste them into a simple email and pass them along to anyone you care about. This government is, and has been, heading in a bad direction, and don't think for a minute that a new administration will change anything at all.
Remember, we are the majority, and by nature, the majority rules. By doing nothing we are a willing pack of beaten sheep.
Graham

Sunday, April 13th 2008
gray10@msn.com