William Penn
William Penn was an English writer, theologian, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania. An advocate of democracy and religious freedom, Penn was known for his amicable relations and successful treaties with the Lenape native peoples who had resided in present-day Pennsylvania before European colonisation there.
Background
- Born in
- London
- Educated at
- Christ ChurchChigwell School
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary citizen of the United States🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society
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Trending topics shown first"You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I s…"
"True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it."
"They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice."
"Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm; but it is their weak side in argument; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes."
"When the great and wise God had made the world, of all his creatures, it pleased him to chuse man his Deputy to rule it: and to fit him for so great a charge and trust, he did not only qualify him wit…"
"Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good."
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1644
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