William Penn Quotes on Politics
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Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself- a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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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 endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. - Frame of Government
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Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
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Whereas the glory of Almighty God and the good of mankind is the reason and end of government, therefore, government in itself is a venerable ordinance of God.
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No men, nor number of men upon earth, hath power or authority to rule over men's consciences in religious matters.