25 result(s) for Quotes About When Government Becomes Lawless The People Must Resist.
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
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"It is the right as a citizen to criticize one's government."
"Revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."
"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it."
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
"The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
"Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it."
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards men."
"If we submit everything to our government we become puppets of the state."
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"The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government."
"We must never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
