ASAlgernon Sidney

7 collected words

Algernon Sidney

Life dates: 1622 AD — 1683 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1652 AD

Manus haec inimica tyrannis Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

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02c. 1652 AD

Liars ought to have good memories.

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03c. 1652 AD

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

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04c. 1652 AD

God helps those who help themselves.

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05c. 1652 AD

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.

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06c. 1652 AD

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.

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07c. 1652 AD

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

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