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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/i-will-believe-in-the-right-of-one-man-to-govern-a-nation/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

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## More by Algernon Sidney

> [If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/if-vice-and-corruption-prevail-liberty-cannot-subsist-but-if-virtue/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/machiavel-discoursing-on-these-matters-finds-virtue-to-be-so/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/men-lived-like-fishes-the-great-ones-devoured-the-small/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [ \[A\]ll popular and well-mixed governments \[republics\] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/a-ll-popular-and-well-mixed-governments-republics-are-ever/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/everyone-sees-they-cannot-well-live-asunder-nor-many-together-without/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [For violence or fraud can create no right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/for-violence-or-fraud-can-create-no-right/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/it-is-not-necessary-to-light-a-candle-to-the-sun/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/many-things-are-unknown-to-the-wisest-and-the-best-men-can-never/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/if-his-majesty-is-resolved-to-have-my-head-he-may-make-a-whistle-of/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [Violence and fraud can create no right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/violence-and-fraud-can-create-no-right/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/that-which-is-not-just-is-not-law-and-that-which-is-not-law-ought-not/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [ \[L\]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/l-iberty-cannot-be-preserved-if-the-manners-of-the-people-are/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/liberty-cannot-be-preserved-if-the-manners-of-the-people-are-corrupted/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [Liars need to have good memories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/liars-need-to-have-good-memories/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

> [ \[I\]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/i-f-vice-and-corruption-prevail-liberty-cannot-subsist-but-if-virtue/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

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