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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
-William Penn
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A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
-William Penn
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A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
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For we put the power in the people.
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They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
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Abstinence
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Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
-William Penn
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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
-William Penn
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Ambition
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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
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Anger
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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.
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Blame
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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Business
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
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Christianity
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
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Confidence
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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Control
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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Democracy
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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Discipline
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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Father
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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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Friends
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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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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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God
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Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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Greed
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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Judging, Judgment
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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Kindness
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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Knowledge
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
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Books by and about William Penn