Quotes by Walter Raleigh

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Statesman and explorer · English · 1552–1618

English statesman and explorer (1552–1618)

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“All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves s...”

— Walter Raleigh

“It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the m...”

— Walter Raleigh

“A wise man ought not to desire to inhabit that country where men have more authority than laws. For indeed that country deserves to be desired where every one may securely enjoy his own, not that w...”

— Walter Raleigh