6 William Penn Quotes on Politics

William Penn quotes on politics

5. Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.

33. Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself- a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

37. 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

38. Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.

40. 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.

42. No men, nor number of men upon earth, hath power or authority to rule over men's consciences in religious matters.