Jo Godwin Quotes

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.