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

If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of t…

- Algernon Sidney

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

- Algernon Sidney

Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks…

- Algernon Sidney

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

- 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 …

- Algernon Sidney

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

- 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…

- Algernon Sidney