Thou art but grown a rebel by success, And I, that scorned Orazia should be tied To thee my slave, must now esteem thee less: Rebellion is a greater guilt than pride.

The rebellion led by Luther was the result not of a revolt of reason against dogmas, but of widely spread anti-clerical feeling due to the ecclesiastical methods of extorting money, particularly by the sale of Indulgences, the most glaring abuse of the time.

Cade's Rebellion (1450) and the bloody Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) are names to show how the energy of England was violently destroying itself, like a great engine that has lost its balance wheel.

This rebellion is not merely a violation of your legal duty; it is without just cause, without reason, without excuse.

In what rebellion was such a banner carried?

The Rebellion was the work of a governing class, all whose ideas and hopes were the aggrandizement of their own order.

"Then, first, what is rebellion?" "Rebellion," said I, "rebellionrebellion," seeking a definition, "rebellion is armed hostility, within a nation or state, to the legalized government of the nation or state.

Berkeley's tyranny was carried to such an extreme, that rebellion was the natural consequence.

Rebellion, to whatever excess it was carried, was not capital, but might be redeemed by a sum of money

The impending rebellion was not to him, as it was to the nation at large, a new event in politics.

Rebellion was my watchword.

In that sense, rebellion in a just cause is a duty, the extent of opposition being determined by the measure of the injustice done and felt.

The moral rebellion he succeeded in exciting was tepid, heartless, and ineffective, and he was not moved by hate or fear until he remembered that God in His infinite goodness had placed him for ever out of the temptation which he so earnestly sought to escape from.

In spite of the longing for tranquillity, then, we cannot confidently hope that rebellion will be less the characteristic of the present generation than of the past.

This rebellion of Mrs. Brown was a diversion in favour of Plantagenet.

After lamenting the severity of the storm which was passing over the South, and expressing his fear that the Rebellion would be a failure, he referred to his own situation.

This rebellion came a "century too soon," being just one hundred years before the great revolution, which set at liberty all the colonies of North America.

We have in these words this plain announcementthat Rebellion is a crime, and shall be visited with terrible judgment.

Its solemn and imperative duty is to look every issue, however grave and transcendent, firmly in the face; and having ascertained upon mature and conscientious reflection what is necessary to suppress the Rebellion, it must then proceed with inexorable purpose to inflict the blows where Rebellion is the weakest and under which it must inevitably fall.

That the recent rebellion, aiming its blows at the Government, bought by the blood of Revolutionary patriots, was the outgrowth of the institution of Slavery.

Under a free government of majorities, such as ours, rebellion is simply the resistance of a minority.

The king having lost the respect and affection of the nation, the rebellion of Jeroboam was a logical sequence.

One of the chief lures which instigated and encouraged the Southern rebellion was the assurance, adroitly insinuated by the leading traitors into their duped followers, that opposition by the rest of the country to their schemes would take the form of an anti-slavery crusade, in which form the opposition would be put down by the combined force of those who did not belong to the Republican party.

The conduct of the English towards the Irish after the Rebellion was quite simply the conduct of one man who traps and binds another, and then calmly cuts him about with a knife.

But Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts was the most important of them all, because it convinced the New Englanders that a stronger national government was necessary.