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.

immediately went out of the room and never returned. He was beheaded on 7 December 1683 and his remains were buried at Penshurst.

Algernon Sidney or Sydney (14 or 15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician republican political theorist colonel and opponent of King Charles II of England who was charged with plotting against the King and was executed for treason.