Author: William Godwin

Quotes

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

- William Godwin

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

- William Godwin

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

- William Godwin

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

- William Godwin

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

- William Godwin

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

- William Godwin

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

- William Godwin

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

- William Godwin

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.

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

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