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God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
— Algernon Sidney
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun
— Algernon Sidney
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed ... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
— Algernon Sidney
The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
— Algernon Sidney
Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.
— Benjamin Franklin
A mendacious umbrella is a sign of great moral degradation.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Violence and fraud can create no right.
— Algernon Sidney
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
— Algernon Sidney
If you're going to ask me if the muffins are low fat, you should know I'm running out of places to hide all the dead bodies.
— Jill Shalvis
'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
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
— Algernon Sidney
The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.
— Algernon Sidney
Ferreting in one's soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.
— Leo Tolstoy
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
— Algernon Sidney
Liars need to have good memories.
— Algernon Sidney
All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
— Algernon Sidney
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
— Algernon Sidney
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
— Algernon Sidney
Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.
— Algernon Sidney
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
— Algernon Sidney
Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
— Algernon Sidney
The day you realize you don't have to make sense to anyone is the day you start to make sense to you.
— Greg Behrendt
To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
— Algernon Sidney
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
— Algernon Sidney