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.
Algernon SidneyIf his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
Algernon SidneyNay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.
Algernon SidneyTis 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