 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 524 sayfa
...DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL ; WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little...by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 478 sayfa
...DESIGN OF GOvERNMENT IN GENERAL ; WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little...the same miseries by a government, which we might expert in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 444 sayfa
...our affections, the latter negatively, by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, (he other creates distinctions. The first is a patron,...by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 470 sayfa
...DESIGN OP GOVERNMENT IN GENERALWITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. SOME- writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little...by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we... | |
 | 1832 - 572 sayfa
...hap' piness positively, by uniting our affections ; the latter nega' tively, by restraining our vices. Society in every state is a ' blessing ; but government, even in its best state, is but a ne' cessary evil. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost in' nocence : the palaces of kings are... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 sayfa
...vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron ; the last a punisher. Society, in every state, is a blessing...necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Paine. Let us suppose a small number of persons settled in socie sequestered part of the earth,... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 sayfa
...JAN. 29, (0. S.) 1737. AT GKEENWJCH, NEW-VOKF, JCNB 8, 1809. i o« THOMAS PAINE. FROM COMMON SENSE. Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - 512 sayfa
...axioms may be interesting here : " Society," he says, " in every state is a blessing ; but government in its best state is but a necessary evil ; in its worst state an intolerable one.1 ° ° ° " Here, too," he said, " is the design and end of government, viz., Freedom and Security.... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - 498 sayfa
...axioms may be interesting here : " Society/' he says, " in every state is a blessing ; but government in its best state is but a necessary evil ; in its worst state an intolerable one.1 * * * " Here, too," he said, " is the design and end of government, viz., Freedom and Security.... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - 1880 - 412 sayfa
...the camp fires until it became authoritative by universal assent, opens thus: "Some writers have so confounded society with government as to leave little...state is a blessing, but government, even in its best estate, is but a necessary evil; in its worst estate an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are... | |
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one... 
