Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
It Is Not Necessary To Light A Candle To The Sun
-Algernon Sidney
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
It Is Not Necessary To Light A
Algernon Sidney
It Is Not Necessary To Light A Candle To The Sun
Views: 22
Topic
Light
Sun
Candle
More From Algernon Sidney
We Cannot Distinguish Truth From Falsehood, Right From Wrong, Or Know What Obedience We Owe To The Magistrate, Or What We May Justly Expect From Him, Unless We Know What He Is, Why He Is, And By Whom He Is Made To Be What He Is.... I Cannot Know How To Obey Unless I Know In What, And To Whom; Nor In What Unless I Know What Ought To Be Commanded; Nor What Ought To Be Commanded Unless I Understand The Original Right Of The Commander, Which Is The Great Arcanum.
May
Obedience
Made
Liars Need To Have Good Memories.
Memories
Liars
Needs
If His Majesty Is Resolved To Have My Head, He May Make A Whistle Of My Arse If He Pleases.
Arses
May
Majesty
Machiavel, Discoursing On These Matters, Finds Virtue To Be So Essentially Necessary To The Establishment And Preservation Of Liberty, That He Thinks It Impossible For A Corrupted People To Set Up A Good Government, Or For A Tyranny To Be Introduced If They Be Virtuous; And Makes This Conclusion, 'that Where The Matter (that Is, The Body Of The People) Is Not Corrupted, Tumults And Disorders Do Not Hurt; And Where It Is Corrupted, Good Laws Do No Good:' Which Being Confirmed By Reason And Experience, I Think No Wise Man Has Ever Contradicted Him.
Wise
Hurt
Men
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.
Government
Order
People
Trending Author
Alphonsus Liguori
Anna Neagle
Olga Kurylenko
Charlie Gonzalez
Laurell K. Hamilton
Woody Guthrie
Category
Information