He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.
Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.
I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.
A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.