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22 quotes by Algernon Sidney

Portrait of Sidney Algernon on the frontispice of the French translation Discours sur le gouvernement (Discourses Concerning Government), The Hague, 1702. Algernon Sidney or Sydney (14 or 15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician and member of the Long Parliament. A republican political theorist, colonel, and commissioner of the trial of King Charles I of England, he opposed the king's execution. Sidney was later charged with...
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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... →

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Liars need to have good memories.

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

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

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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... →

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

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

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To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

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

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

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'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.

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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... →

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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... →

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