Civil unrest from "summary" of The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Civil unrest is a tempest that may come in a night, as any man may know who reads the chronicles of every land. A little thing, in the beginning, it may be, but it is like a snowball rolling down a mountain, and it may grow larger and larger, and still larger, till it is like a mighty avalanche, devastating that land and burying it beneath a mountain of ruin. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. And so it was in that time of old, when the people rose against the rulers who oppressed them, and demanded their rights as men. The streets were filled with men and women, shouting and clamoring for justice, for bread to eat, for freedom from the chains that bound them. The rich man looked out from his palace, and saw the flames of burning houses, and heard the cries of the starving poor, and he trembled in his heart, for he knew that the day of reckoning had come. The Prince himself saw the tumult and the strife, and he marveled at the power of the people,...
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