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Algernon Sidney Quotes: 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.
         

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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Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?



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Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.



If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.



I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.



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That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.



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For violence or fraud can create no right.



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Liars need to have good memories.



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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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I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.



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Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.

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