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William Penn – angielski kwakier, założyciel Pensylwanii. Kwakrzy , którzy odrzucali ceremoniał kościelny, służbę wojskową i rozrywki, niemal od początku swego istnienia przysparzali kłopotów władzom brytyjskim. Penn, jeden z ich przywódców, zdołał namówić króla Karola II, by zezwolił im na założenie kolonii w Ameryce. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Październik 1644 – 30. Lipiec 1718
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“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

“No men, nor number of men upon earth, hath power or authority to rule over men's consciences in religious matters.”

Sometimes attributed to Penn, this is actually from a document Concessions and Agreements of West New Jersey http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/organic/1677-cnj.htm (13 March 1677)
Misattributed

“Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons”

193
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I

“Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.”

As quoted in Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn : Who Settled the State of Pennsylvania, and Founded the City of Philadelphia (1827) by S. C. Stevens, p. 117

“Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself — a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.”

Preface to the Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government of the Province of Pennsylvania in America (5 May 1682).
Frame of Government (1682)

“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

This quote is often attributed to William Penn, but there are no records of it before the 19th century, and its actual source seems to have most likely been another prominent Quaker, Stephen Grellet.
Misattributed