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::::::::-John Smith, ''The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, together with
::::::::-John Smith, ''The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, together with
::::::::''The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar - Volume 1'' (1614), [http://memory.loc.gov/gc/lhbcb/0262a/0266.tif p. 222]
::::::::''The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar - Volume 1'' (1614), [http://memory.loc.gov/gc/lhbcb/0262a/0266.tif p. 222]
{{cquote|...the 2. agents sent from Leyden.... presumed to conclude with the marchants on those termes....
{{cquote|...the 2. agents sent from Leyden.... presumed to conclude with the marchants on those termes....
:...all profits and benifits that are gott by trade, traffick, trucking, working, fishing, or any other means of any person or persons, remaine still in the commone stock untill the division....
:...all profits and benifits that are gott by trade, traffick, trucking, working, fishing, or any other means of any person or persons, remaine still in the commone stock untill the division....
:That all such persons as are of this collonie, are to have their meate, drink, apparell, and all provissions out of the common stock and goods of the said collonie....
{{cquote|:That all such persons as are of this collonie, are to have their meate, drink, apparell, and all provissions out of the common stock and goods of the said collonie....
...that which was most sadd & lamentable was, that in 2. or 3. moneths time halfe of their company dyed....
...that which was most sadd & lamentable was, that in 2. or 3. moneths time halfe of their company dyed....
:::-William Bradford (Charles Deane,ed.), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tYecOAN1cwwC History of Plymouth plantation]'' (ca. 1620-23; published by Little, Brown & Co., 1856), pp. 45-46, 91, 126, 134-136, 147
:::-William Bradford (Charles Deane,ed.), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tYecOAN1cwwC History of Plymouth plantation]'' (ca. 1620-23; published by Little, Brown & Co., 1856), pp. 45-46, 91, 126, 134-136, 147
((cquote|By natural birth, all men are equal and alike born to the like propriety and freedom.... [T]o every individual in nature is given an individual propriety by nature, not to be invaded or usurped by any... for every one... hath a self propriety... and on this no second may presume without consent; and by natural birth all men are equal, and alike born to like propriety and freedom.}}
:Richard Overton, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HzMgPwAACAARichard Overton, An Arrow Against All Tyrants (London 1646), pp. 3-4
{{cquote|In my opinion and judgement, this conceit of levelling of property and magistracy is so ridiculous and foolish an opinion, as no man of brains, reason or ingenuity can be imagined such a sot as to maintain such a principle, because it would, if practiced destroy not only any industry in the world, but raze the very foundation of generation, and of subsistence or being of one man by another. For as for industry and valour by which the societies of mankind are maintained and preserved, who will take the pains for that which when he hath gotten is not his own, but must be equally shared in, by every lazy, simple, dronish sot? Or who will fight for that, wherein he hath no other interest, but such as must be subject to the will and pleasure of another, yea of every coward and base low spirited fellow, that in his sitting still must share in common with a valiant man in all his brave and noble achievement? The ancient encouragement to men that were to defend their Country was this: that they were to hazard their persons for that which was their own, to wit, their own wives, their own children, their own Estates.}}
{{cquote|In my opinion and judgement, this conceit of levelling of property and magistracy is so ridiculous and foolish an opinion, as no man of brains, reason or ingenuity can be imagined such a sot as to maintain such a principle, because it would, if practiced destroy not only any industry in the world, but raze the very foundation of generation, and of subsistence or being of one man by another. For as for industry and valour by which the societies of mankind are maintained and preserved, who will take the pains for that which when he hath gotten is not his own, but must be equally shared in, by every lazy, simple, dronish sot? Or who will fight for that, wherein he hath no other interest, but such as must be subject to the will and pleasure of another, yea of every coward and base low spirited fellow, that in his sitting still must share in common with a valiant man in all his brave and noble achievement? The ancient encouragement to men that were to defend their Country was this: that they were to hazard their persons for that which was their own, to wit, their own wives, their own children, their own Estates.}}
::::::-John Lilburn, quoted in D. B. Robertson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9Cs4AAAAIAAJ The religious foundations of Leveller democracy]'' (King's Crown Press, 1951), p. 87
::::::-John Lilburn, quoted in D. B. Robertson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9Cs4AAAAIAAJ The religious foundations of Leveller democracy]'' (King's Crown Press, 1951), p. 87