 | Steve Alten - 2004 - 433 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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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.... 
