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"Much reading is an oppression of the mind." William Penn Quotes
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William Penn was a Quaker minister who founded Pennsylvania. His democratic principles inspired the U.S. Constitution. These are some of his famous quotes.
| | My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man. |
| | Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws. |
| | True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. |
| | Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. |
| | Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. |
| | The public must and will be served. |
| | Time is what we want most, but what, alas! we use worst; and for which God will certainly most strictly reckon with us, when Time shall be no more. |
| | Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. |
| | Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. |
| | Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. |
| | Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer of a wise man. |
| | Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery. |
| | O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. |
| | Whereas the glory of Almighty God and the good of mankind is the reason and end of government, therefore, government in itself is a venerable ordinance of God. |
| | It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any. |
| | Children, Fear God; that is to say, have a holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good. |
| | Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself—a thing sacred in its institutions and ends. |
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