Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
More Quotes from William Penn:
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obeyd.William Penn
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
William Penn
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn
Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
William Penn
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
William Penn
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn
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