“I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.” MenWorldBelieveNationsBornOne ManBootsDespotismSpursSaddles Author: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, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desire and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them.” MenEndsGovernmentDesireJusticeCommonKnownLibertyVirtueTreeBearsRootsFoundationFruitSeedsVanityBeastOne ManAdvancementGood WillBegetsCommon Good Book:Life, Memoirs,&c. of Algernon Sydney Source: Life, Memoirs,&c. of Algernon Sydney
“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.” MenHardForceMastersEqualOne ManConsent Book:Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author Source: Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author