Algernon Sidney Quotes

Liars need to have good memories.
Algernon Sidney

Good, Liars, Memories

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney

Power, Corruption, Liberty

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Algernon Sidney

Liberty, Cannot, Manners

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
Algernon Sidney

Best, Democracy, Monarchy

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.
Algernon Sidney

Cannot, Nation, General

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
Algernon Sidney

Same, Fate, Deal

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
Algernon Sidney

Live, Together, Cannot

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
Algernon Sidney

God, Government, May

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
Algernon Sidney

Justice, Liberty, Laws

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
Algernon Sidney

Making, Unless, Conquest

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
Algernon Sidney

Best, War, Government

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
Algernon Sidney

Nature, School, Liberty

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
Algernon Sidney

Nature, Truth, Reason

'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

Hard, Himself, Unless

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
Algernon Sidney

Slavery, Depend

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

Him, Hurts, Shoe

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
Algernon Sidney

Themselves, Security, General

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
Algernon Sidney

Nature, Men, Government

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.
Algernon Sidney

Men, Best, Nothing

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
Algernon Sidney

Words, Eyes, Sense

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
Algernon Sidney

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
Algernon Sidney

Good, Liberty, Natural

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Politician

Born: 1623

Died: 1683

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