No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
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God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.Algernon Sydney
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.
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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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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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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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