Quotes by William Godwin

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

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