Algernon Quotes

This is a call to the living,
To those who refuse to make peace with evil,
With the suffering and the waste of the world.
This is a call to the human, not the perfect,
To those who know their own prejudices,
Who have no intention of becoming prisoners of their own limitations.
This is a call to those who remember the dreams of their youth,
Who know what it means to share food and shelter,
The care of children and those who are troubled,
To reach beyond barriers of the past
Bringing people to communion.
This is a call to the never ending spirit
Of the common man, his essential decency and integrity,
His unending capacity to suffer and endure,
To face death and destruction and to rise again
And build from the ruins of life.
This is the greatest call of all
The call to a faith in people. - Algernon D. Black

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

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature. - Algernon Sidney

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion. - Algernon Sidney

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. - Algernon Sidney

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. - Algernon Sidney

That is the best Government, which best provides for war. - Algernon Sidney

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes. - Algernon Sidney

Pale, beyond porch and portal,/ Crowned with calm leaves, she stands,/ Who gathers all things mortal/ With cold immortal hands. - Algernon Charles Swinburne