Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
William Godwin
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More quotes by William Godwin
- Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
- As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
- Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
- 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.
- Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.