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.
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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
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
William Godwin
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
William Godwin
A soldier is a man whose business it is to kill those who never offended him, and who are the innocent martyrs of other men's iniquities. Whatever may become of the abstract question of the justifiableness of war, it seems impossible that the soldier should not be a depraved and unnatural thing.
William Godwin
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
William Godwin
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