Thomas Jefferson Quotes

A little rebellion is a good thing.

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.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

Insurrection is an art.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.

Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.