Frases de William Penn
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William Penn fue cuáquero prominente, filósofo inglés y empresario de bienes raíces. Penn fundó la Provincia de Pensilvania, una colonia inglesa norteamericana y futura Mancomunidad de Pensilvania. Allí inició un proyecto social conocido como el "Santo Experimento", en el que se promovieron las igualdades sociales, los derechos individuales y el pacifismo. La colonia posteriormente se convirtió en los estados de Pensilvania y Delaware; y sus principios democráticos sirvieron como una fuente importante en la inspiración de la constitución estadounidense y la tradición norteamericana.

Siendo un hombre de profundas convicciones religiosas, Penn exhortó a los creyentes a regresar a los principios del cristianismo primitivo. Debido a su fe, fue encarcelado varias veces en la torre de Londres donde escribió su obra No Cross, No Crown , que fue publicada en 1669 y ha llegado a ser considerada un clásico del cristianismo.[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 14. octubre 1644 – 30. julio 1718
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William Penn Frases y Citas

“Si no necesitas trabajar para comer, necesitarás trabajar para tener salud. Ama el trabajo y no dejes que nazca la mala hierba de la ociosidad.”

Fuente: Amate Pou, Jordi. Paseando por una parte de la Historia: Antología de citas. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2017. ISBN 9788417321871. p. 117.

William Penn: Frases en inglés

“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

“No men, nor number of men upon earth, hath power or authority to rule over men's consciences in religious matters.”

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”

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Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I

“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

“Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself — a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.”

Preface to the Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government of the Province of Pennsylvania in America (5 May 1682).
Frame of Government (1682)

“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

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