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.
William GodwinRevolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.
William GodwinIn cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
William Godwin