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Algernon Sidney on Men

1623–1683 England

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Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine character.

Scaffold speech (1683)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Algernon Sidney (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.