"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination."
-William Godwin
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"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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"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."
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"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
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"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind."
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"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."
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"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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