Quotes William Godwin

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a...

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil t...

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is...

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a ...

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some se...

God himself has no right to be a tyrant....

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen ...

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resig...

He that loves reading has everything within his reach....

How can any one have genuine happiness, unless in proportion...

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such....

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his ...

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and ...

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of emin...

Justice is the sum of all moral duty....

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who ...

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget...

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free...

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his...

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, wi...

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguis...

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to ...

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet...

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tra...

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but...