William Godwin Quotes

Only the educated are free.

Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.

Education is freedom.

Freedom can occur only through education.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

Education liberates a woman.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Liberty belongs only to those who have the gift of reason.

To have found a great people sunk in the lowest depths of slavery and superstition, to have so ruled them as to have made them desirous and capable of all the privileges of citizens, would indeed be a title to glory all our own.

I am myne owene woman, wel at ese