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

William Penn

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
Good
Men
Virtue
Liberty
Cannot
Government

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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
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Inquiry is human blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
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