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More Quotes by William Penn
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Oppression makes a poor country.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
