If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
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This hand, unfriendly to tyrants, Seeks with the sword placid repose under liberty.Algernon Sidney
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Liars need to have good memories.
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It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
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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: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
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