Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.William Godwin
Obey this may be right but beware of reverence. Government is nothing but regulated force force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.
William Godwin
Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
William Godwin
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
William Godwin
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
William Godwin
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
William Godwin
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