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English Politician Inspirational Quotes (43)

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If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
Algernon Sidney
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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.
Algernon Sidney
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Men lived like fishes the great ones devoured the small.
Algernon Sidney
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It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun
Algernon Sidney
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Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
Algernon Sidney
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Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Algernon Sidney
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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
Algernon Sidney
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The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of 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
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For violence or fraud can create no right.
Algernon Sidney
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If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .
Algernon Sidney
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[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by virtue: The worst men always conspiring against them, they must fall, if the best have not power to preserve them. . . . [and] unless they be preserved in a great measure free from vices . . . .
Algernon Sidney
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Liars need to have good memories.
Algernon Sidney
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In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
Stephen Gardiner
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The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
Stephen Gardiner
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In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.
Stephen Gardiner
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There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
Algernon Sidney
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The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
Stephen Gardiner
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The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.
Stephen Gardiner
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That which is not just, is not Law and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
Algernon Sidney
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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.
Algernon Sidney
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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
Stephen Gardiner
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No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
Algernon Sidney
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Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
Stephen Gardiner
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That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
Algernon Sidney
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