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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. (William Godwin Quotes)
Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness (William Godwin Quotes)
If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such (William Godwin Quotes)
There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape (William Godwin Quotes)
They held it their duty to live but for their country (William Godwin Quotes)
To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore (William Godwin Quotes)
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection (William Godwin Quotes)
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination (William Godwin Quotes)
But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference (William Godwin Quotes)
As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle (William Godwin Quotes)
In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them (William Godwin Quotes)
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion. (William Godwin Quotes)
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good (William Godwin Quotes)
Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain (William Godwin Quotes)
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species (William Godwin Quotes)
The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years (William Godwin Quotes)
Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways (William Godwin Quotes)
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation (William Godwin Quotes)
Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man (William Godwin Quotes)
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason (William Godwin Quotes)
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions (William Godwin Quotes)
God himself has no right to be a tyrant (William Godwin Quotes)
Justice is the sum of all moral duty (William Godwin Quotes)
He that loves reading has everything within his reach (William Godwin Quotes)
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny (William Godwin Quotes)
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble (William Godwin Quotes)
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility (William Godwin Quotes)
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic (William Godwin Quotes)
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book (William Godwin Quotes)
Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides (William Godwin Quotes)