"Fruits are always of the same nature with……" — Algernon Sidney
"Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desire and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them."
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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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[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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Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections...…
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most…
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness…
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
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The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the…
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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
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Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors…
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