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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

Quote by William Godwin about consequences, opinion, liberty, power, man, contentment

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Quote by William Godwin about memory, man, life

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Quote by William Godwin about present, past, future

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Quote by William Godwin about gifts, earth, reason, man

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Quote by William Godwin about perseverance, influence, principle

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Quote by William Godwin about revolution

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Quote by William Godwin about reason

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Quote by William Godwin about activity, real estate

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

Quote by William Godwin about humanity, justice, happiness, good, good luck, love

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

Quote by William Godwin about reason, love

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

Quote by William Godwin about meditation, things

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Quote by William Godwin about affection, parents, children, human imperfections, love

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Quote by William Godwin about conduct, youth

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Quote by William Godwin about philosophy, man

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Quote by William Godwin about teaching, error, man

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

Quote by William Godwin about rightness, man, real estate

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Quote by William Godwin about consequences, imagination, love

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Quote by William Godwin about human imperfections

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Quote by William Godwin about imagination, things

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

Quote by William Godwin about prison, duty, country