"God leaves to Man the choice of Forms……" — Algernon Sidney
"God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it."
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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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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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More Abrogate Quotes
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Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is…
— Densey Clyne
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President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the…
— Jerome Corsi
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Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights.…
— Ayn Rand
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Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse…
— Frederick Lenz
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The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied…
— Hugo Black
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Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on,…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.
— John Gresham Machen
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On love: I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that…
— Harlan Ellison
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I will not stand idly by while you abrogate my plans! You shall rue this day!... Well, go on, start…
— Family Guy
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