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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.
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More Quotes by William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
