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More Quotes by William Penn
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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.
