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More Quotes by William Penn
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Oppression makes a poor country.
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.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
