Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
From Algernon Sidney
A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
'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.
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
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.
The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
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