...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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....

...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....

...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...