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More Quotes by William Penn
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
