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To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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