"A general presumption that Icings will govern well,……" — Algernon Sidney
"A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast."
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Algernon Sidney
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34 Quotes by Algernon Sidney
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[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
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[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never…
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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known…
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[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
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If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest…
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Violence and fraud can create no right.
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Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that…
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The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and…
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Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to…
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Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
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God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and…
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More Beast Quotes
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
— Diane Ackerman
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
— Cate Blanchett
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not…
— Daniel Boone
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
— Robert Browning
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes…
— A. S. Byatt
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
— A. S. Byatt
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
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