“This hand, the rule of tyrants to oppose
Seeks with the sword fair freedom's soft repose.”

— Algernon Sidney

As quoted in Life and Memoirs of Algernon Sidney; his father (Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester) wrote to him (30 August 1660) https://books.google.com/books?id=zUENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA94&dq=: "It is said that the University of Copenhagen brought their album unto you, desiring you to write something; and that you did scribere in albo these words".

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Manus haec inimica tyrannis Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

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