"The general revolt of a Nation cannot be…" — Algernon Sidney

"The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion."

— 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 . . .
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never…
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known…
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest…
Violence and fraud can create no right.
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that…
The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and…
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to…
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and…

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