English - Politician | 1623 - 1683
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
Algernon Sidney
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Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
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All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
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That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
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The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
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'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 by force.
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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 to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
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The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
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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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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
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