Selected quotations: R

Sir, I see that it is impossible to have liberty but all property must be taken away. If it be laid down for a rule, and if you will say it, it must be so, but I would fain know what the soldiers have fought for all this while; he has fought to enslave himself, to give power to men of riches, men of estates, to make him a perpetual slave. We do find in all presses that go forth none must be present that are freehold men. When these gentlemen fall out among themselves, they shall press the poor shrubs to come out and kill them.

Putney debates