Freedom Quote by Algernon Sidney Download Open image “[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .” — Algernon Sidney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Ifs Liberty Manners People Virtue
An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
“must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language; and that not only because the affectation… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“[...] times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Integrity should be preserved in all events, as essential to his happiness, through every stage of his existence.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for a corrupted people to set up a good government, or for a tyranny to be introduced if they be virtuous; and makes this conclusion, 'That where the matter (that is, the body of the people)… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be… — James Baldwin Copy Share
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
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