Rebellion

"Cautious, careful people, always casting around to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform."
        --Susan B. Anthony

"Every great advance in....knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
        --Julian Huxley, Lay Sermons

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
        --Thomas Jefferson

"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable."
        --John F. Kennedy

"The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves."
        --H.L. Mencken

"If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God."
        --Francis Schaeffer