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I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs and a nation with saddles on their backs.
I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs and a nation with saddles on their backs.
Approximate author period: c. 1652 AD · renaissance
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- Algernon Sidney
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- Approximate author period: c. 1652 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1622–1683)
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