William Penn Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

  William Penn

  Thinking, Democracies Have, People

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

  William Penn

  Choices, Liberty, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.45, Courier Corporation

• Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

  William Penn

  Men, Liberty, Virtue

  "Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia".

• That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the world; and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall, in no ways, be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion, or practice, in manners of faith and worship, nor shall they be compelled, at any time, to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatever.

  William Penn

  Religious, Practice, Liberty

• By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

  William Penn

  Believe, Exercise, Men

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.11

• It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

  William Penn

  Men, Liberty, Obedience

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