Algernon Sidney

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

— Algernon Sidney

#conquest #making #right #unless #were

That is the best Government, which best provides for war. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#government #provides #war #which

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

— Algernon Sidney

#best #bin #composed #democracy #governments

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

— Algernon Sidney

#divines #liberty #nature #notions #school

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

— Algernon Sidney

#led #man #nature #reason #truth

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

#effect #general #good #intended #liberty

'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

#comprehend #consent #equal #force #hard

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#man #slavery #upon #will

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

— Algernon Sidney

#him #hurts #made #shoe #tells