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Algernon Sydney

"Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty."

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"Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty."

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"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."

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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

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"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."

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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

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"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."

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"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

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"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."

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"The innocent must not suffer."

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"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."

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"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."

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"God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it."

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"The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature."

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"No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest."

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"All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate."

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"Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty."

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"The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature."

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"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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"The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion."

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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."

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