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.


Discourses Concerning Government, by Algernon Sidney... Published from an Original Manuscript of the Author (ed. 1698)

Algernon Sidney Quotes

The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide ...

The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide ...

The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide ...

The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide ...