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:::::::::Richard Overton, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HzMgPwAACAA An Arrow Against All Tyrants]'' (London 1646), pp. 3-4

:::::::::Richard Overton, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HzMgPwAACAA 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|[T]his 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