Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases. - Algernon Sidney
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
- Algernon Sidney
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force. - Algernon Sidney
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of t… - Algernon Sidney
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of t…
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. - Algernon Sidney
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks… - Algernon Sidney
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks…
Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made? - Algernon Sidney
Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with … - Algernon Sidney
I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with …
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . - Algernon Sidney
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, i… - Algernon Sidney
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, i…
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