More Quotes by William Penn
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
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.
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Never despise what you don't understand.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
