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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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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep…
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of…
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There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
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Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees…
— Elisha Gray
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Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.
— Eric Metaxas
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The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed…
— Harry S. Truman
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Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.
— Milton S. Eisenhower
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Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some…
— John D. MacDonald
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No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work…
— James Russell Lowell
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What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.
— DeWitt Bodeen
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