30 Famous Quotes by William Penn
10/14/1644 - 7/30/1718
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About William Penn
William Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was an early champion of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Indians. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed.
In 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his American land holdings to William Penn to satisfy a debt the king owed to Penn's father. This land included present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware. Penn immediately sailed to America and his first step on American soil took place in New Castle in 1682. On this occasion, the colonists pledged allegiance to Penn as their new Proprietor, and the first general assembly was held in the colony. Afterwards, Penn journeyed up river and founded Philadelphia. However, Penn's Quaker government was not viewed favorably by the Dutch, Swedish, and English settlers in what is now Delaware. They had no "historical" allegiance to Pennsylvania, so they almost immediately began petitioning for their own Assembly. In 1704 they achieved their goal when the three southernmost counties of Pennsylvania were permitted to split off and become the new semi-autonomous colony of Lower Delaware. As the most prominent, prosperous and influential "city" in the new colony, New Castle became the capital.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end
Paradise
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it
Right
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Adventure
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
Obedience
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Oppression
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
Name
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Past
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
Reward
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Reward
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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Temper
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