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Men Quotes by Algernon Sidney
- [A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by…
- Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:…
- 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…
- Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most…
- God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
- Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to…
- There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders…
- Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or…
- Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.
- Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:…
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