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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the…
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the…
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence…
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun
[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 be upheld…
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Violence and fraud can create no right.

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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. — John Adams
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . — Algernon Sidney
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature… — John Adams
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that… — William Shakespeare
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which… — Samuel Johnson
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. — Algernon Sidney

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