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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
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