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Algernon Sidney has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 be upheld…
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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…
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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 of the…
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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 he thinks…
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The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who…
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Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence…
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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 liberty.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are…
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from…
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Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above…
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If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Man is only truly free only among equally free men.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or…
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There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit…
— Algernon Sidney
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Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
— Paul Gauguin
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All men are born equally free.
— Salmon P. Chase
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All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
— George Mason
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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
— Voltaire
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