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"Manus haec inimica tyrannis Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem."
Algernon SidneyI was long since told that I must die — or the plot die. And lest the — Algernon Sidney
"I was long since told that I must die — or the plot die. And lest the means of destroying the best Protestants in England should fail, the Bench must be filled with such as had been blemished at the Bar. None but such as these would have advised with the Kings Council of the means to bring a man to death: suffered a jury to be empanelled by the Kings Solicitor and the Under-Sheriff: admit of jurymen who are no freeholders: receive such evidence as is above mentioned … they assume unto themselves not only a power to make constructions, but such constructions as neither agree with law, reason nor common sense. By them and their means, I am brought unto this place. The Lord forgive their practices and avert the evils that threaten the nation from them."
Algernon Sidney
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Algernon Sidney or Sydney was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle part of the Long Parliament and commissioner of the trial of King Charles I of England, he opposed the king's execution. Sidney was later charged with plotting against Charles II, in part based on his most famous work, Discourses Concerning Government, which was used by the prosec
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"I thought fit to leave this testimony to the world, that, as I had from my youth endeavored to uphold the Common rights of mankind, the lawes of this land, and the true Protestant religion, against corrupt principles, arbitrary power and Popery, I doe now willingly lay down my life for the same; and having a sure witness within me, that God doth absolve me, and uphold me, in the utmost extremityes, am very littell sollicitous, though man doth condemne me."
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"We live in an age that makes truth pass for treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those that are about me will probably be found too tender to hear it. This my trial and condemnation do sufficiently evidence."
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"If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases."
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"Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small."
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"Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become Gods anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine character."
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