"[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of……" — Algernon Sidney
"[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . ."
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34 Quotes by Algernon Sidney
Algernon Sidney has 34 quotes on this site.
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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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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 Corrupted Quotes
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Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous…
— Charley Reese
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The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too…
— Edward V. Long
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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly…
— Marianne Williamson
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Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too…
— William Shakespeare
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does…
— Thomas Paine
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...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will…
— Noah Webster
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Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
— Albert Einstein
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Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.
— Manis Friedman
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
— Seneca the Younger
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Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of…
— Unknown Author
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