Algernon Sidney

1622 - 1683

Titles on this disk:

• author: Discourses Concerning Government (LF ed.)

Quotation:

• (9 August, 2004) Algernon Sidney’s Motto was that his Hand (i.e. his pen) was an Enemy to all Tyrants (1660)

About this person:

Algernon Sidney was a radical English republican political theorist who challenged Filmer’s theory of the divine right of kings. He was executed for treason in 1683.