William Penn nejznámější citáty
„Lidé obecně vzato, si dělají větší starost s krmením svých koní a psů, než svých dětí.“
Zdroj: Největší urážky Maria Leach
William Penn: Citáty anglicky
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”
This has been quoted as Penn's in various forms since at least 1943 (Fulton J. Sheen, Philosophies at War, p. 154). James H Billington of the Library of Congress wrote (Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations, 2010, p. 145) "Numerous sources cite this remark but it has not been found in Penn's writings." Other variants include:
Unless we are governed by God, we shall be ruled by tyrants. (1949 speech by Norman Vincent Peale)
If men do not find God to rule them, they will be ruled by tyrants. (Roy Masters, How to Conquer Suffering Without Doctors, 1976, p. 50)
... those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. (David Barton, The Myth of Separation, 1992, p. 89
Misattributed
Sometimes attributed to Penn, this is actually from a document Concessions and Agreements of West New Jersey http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/organic/1677-cnj.htm (13 March 1677)
Misattributed
“Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons”
193
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.”
535
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.”
46
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”
279
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
Advice to his children (1699)
“Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.”
As quoted in Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn : Who Settled the State of Pennsylvania, and Founded the City of Philadelphia (1827) by S. C. Stevens, p. 117
Preface to the Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government of the Province of Pennsylvania in America (5 May 1682).
Frame of Government (1682)
This quote is often attributed to William Penn, but there are no records of it before the 19th century, and its actual source seems to have most likely been another prominent Quaker, Stephen Grellet.
Misattributed
First Frame of Government (25 April 1682).
Frame of Government (1682)
Refusing to recant his ideas, after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for expressing his ideas on religious freedoms (1668 or 1669), as quoted in William Penn, America's First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace http://www.quaker.org/wmpenn.html by Jim Powell.
The Preface
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
542 - 547
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
85
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
Letter to those already residing in Pennsylvania (1681)
376 - 379
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
