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(1623–1683) an English politician, republican political theorist, and colonel.

Liberty and virtue

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 2, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories virtueTags Algernon Sidney

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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