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Virtue Quotes by Algernon Sidney
- [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 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:…
- [I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
- If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the…
- 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…
- 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…
- If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
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