Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
William GodwinMy 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 GodwinEverything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
William GodwinWe cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
William Godwin