41 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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