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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatien

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. – Edmund Burke

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. – Edmund Burke

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – Edmund Burke

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Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out. – Mariano Azuela

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What is a rebel? A man who says no. – Albert Camus

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I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. – John Mason Brown

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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffections failure to substitute misrule for bad government. – Ambrose Bierce

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