
Source: The Production of Security (1849), p. 22
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
Context: Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.
Source: The Production of Security (1849), p. 22
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
Laziness is man's own enemy, and it takes toward inertia, which is a downward tendency. Inertia can neither lead to devotion, nor to material advancement. The lazy one's downfall is assured. One gets nothing free in the world. If we labour hard we exist. Labour alone shall triumph is a truism in itself. note: As translated in Shirdi Sai Baba Life: Life-philosophy and Devotion (2011) by O.P. Jha
Variant: Everyone's God is One.
Source: As translated in Shirdi Sai The Supreme (1997) by S. P. Ruhela, p. 188
Source: As translated in Follow The Wind Of Your Soul (2006), by George C. Kottis, p. 345
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti
“This is the negation of God erected into a system of Government.”
A letter to the Earl of Aberdeen, on the state prosecutions of the Neapolitan government (7 April 1851), p. 9.
1850s
24 June 2011, radio interview with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins
A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)
“Theocracy, Government of God, is precisely the thing to be struggled for!”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Priest
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”
This has been quoted as Penn's in various forms since at least 1943 (Fulton J. Sheen, Philosophies at War, p. 154). James H Billington of the Library of Congress wrote (Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations, 2010, p. 145) "Numerous sources cite this remark but it has not been found in Penn's writings." Other variants include:
Unless we are governed by God, we shall be ruled by tyrants. (1949 speech by Norman Vincent Peale)
If men do not find God to rule them, they will be ruled by tyrants. (Roy Masters, How to Conquer Suffering Without Doctors, 1976, p. 50)
... those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. (David Barton, The Myth of Separation, 1992, p. 89
Misattributed