Algernon Sidney

Politician

Kingdom of England

1623 - 1683

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Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
Algernon Sidney
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
Algernon Sidney
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
The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
Algernon Sidney
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
Algernon Sidney