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.
Algernon SidneyEveryone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
Algernon SidneyIf the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .
Algernon SidneyThat which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
Algernon Sidney