List of Algernon Sidney Quotes

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Algernon Sidney
Total Quotes 26
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.
Army Men Office
Liars need to have good memories.
Memories Liars Needs
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun
Light Sun Candle
That is the best government, which best provides for war.
War Government
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
Conquest
God leaves to man the choice of forms in government; and those who constitute one form, may abrogate it.
Men Choices May
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
Men Society Fishes
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.
Passion Men Perfect
Swords were given to men, that none might be slaves, but such as know not how to use them.
Men Use Might
The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.
Government Order People
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
Together Wells Submit
We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may justly expect from him, unless we know what he is, why he is, and by whom he is made to be what he is.... i cannot know how to obey unless i know in what, and to whom; nor in what unless i know what ought to be commanded; nor what ought to be commanded unless i understand the original right of the commander, which is the great arcanum.
May Obedience Made
  • Born: January 15, 1623
  • Died: December 7, 1683
  • Occupation: English Politician
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