Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-4] of 4 Algernon Sidney quotesAlgernon Sidney QuotesAlgernon Sidney Nay, 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 Sidney The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of justice 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 Sidney [T]here is a difference between lions and asses; and he is a fool who knows not that swords were given to men, that none might be slaves, but such as know not how to use them.~ Algernon Sidney If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.~ Algernon Sidney Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print