 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 478 ˹éÒ
...PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14. 1776, COMMON SENSE. ON THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOvERNMENT IN GENERAL ; WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. SOME writers...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... | |
 | 1832 - 572 ˹éÒ
...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 ˹éÒ
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1856 - 542 ˹éÒ
...DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT GENERAL, WITH CONCISE REMARKS OM' THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. SOME writers have BO confounded society with government. as to leave little...by a government, which we might expect in a country wthont government^ our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - 498 ˹éÒ
...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 - 512 ˹éÒ
...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 ˹éÒ
...the armies and around the camp fires until it became authoritative by universal assent, opens thus: "Some writers have so confounded society with government...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... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - 1880 - 412 ˹éÒ
...encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a puuisher. " Society in every 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... | |
 | E. J. Schellhous - 1883 - 362 ˹éÒ
...negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. •' Society in every state is a blessing; but government, even in its best estate, is but a necessary evil : in its worst, an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed... | |
 | E. J. Schellhous - 1883 - 362 ˹éÒ
...negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. x •' Society in every state is a blessing ; but government, even in its best estate, is but a necessary evil : in its worst, an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed... | |
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Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness ' positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.... 
