More Quotes by William Penn
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
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.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.