Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Quote by William Penn about nation, people
Quotes by William Penn, page 2
48 quotes by William Penn
William Penn - English colonial leader
Was born on 14 oct 1644.
Died on 30 jul 1718, at 73 years old.
Died on 30 jul 1718, at 73 years old.
Origin country: United Kingdom
Love grows, lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
Quote by William Penn about love, union, joy, common sense, sense, reason
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity, but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
Quote by William Penn about love, teaching, reason
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Quote by William Penn about man, children
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.
Quote by William Penn about books, reason, mind, world
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Quote by William Penn about reason, truth, rightness, nothing
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
Quote by William Penn about opinion, help
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
Quote by William Penn about pasion, mind
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Quote by William Penn about pasion, reason, man
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Quote by William Penn about rightness, bad
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
Quote by William Penn about humility, common sense, sense, man
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Quote by William Penn about teaching
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Quote by William Penn about rightness, word, end
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Quote by William Penn about opinion, wealth, power, man
