| Steve Alten - 2004 - 433 sayfa
...local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected. . . . Society in every state is a blessing, but government...in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worse state, an intolerable one, for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government... | |
| D.V. Rangarajan - 2004 - 172 sayfa
...be the next one they slander. 2. He that repeateth a matter, separateth very friends. Government 1 . Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state, an intolerable one - Thomas Paine. 2. Abraham Lincoln's immortal oration at Gettysburg, calls a Government not only of... | |
| Florian Weber - 2004 - 332 sayfa
...politique distanziert er sich von Paine,725 der zu Beginn seiner Schrift Common Sense bemerkt hatte: „Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil."726 Constant, den auf Gewalt gegründeten politischen Einfluss der Pariser Sektionen in den Jahren... | |
| John Schrems - 2004 - 408 sayfa
...not necessarily or correlatively American. Paine's words are colorful and have been adopted by many: Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: For when we suffer, or are exposed to the... | |
| Eric Foner - 2005 - 378 sayfa
...the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society is in every state a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. On the basis of passages such as this, which are repeated throughout his political writings, some writers... | |
| Mogens Herman Hansen - 2005 - 460 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 [1776] (1976) 65). "Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of... | |
| Norberto Bobbio - 2005 - 116 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.9 Once liberty has been given the definition which prevails in liberal doctrine - once it has been... | |
| Paul Magnette - 2005 - 220 sayfa
...involved in both revolutions, gave the clearest expression of the civil conception of the Americans: 'Society in every state is a blessing, but government...necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.'2 An historically self-constituted society, which had to suffer the vexations imposed by the British... | |
| Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 sayfa
...them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state,...necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses... | |
| Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 sayfa
...pupil of itself alone. It is the oldest of the sciences" Thomas PAINE: The Rights of Man (1792) 246 "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one" Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) 260 "/ do not wish them to have power... | |
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