...vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. . . . Society is in every state a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. For Paine, government was rife with opportunities for the privileged few to oppress the many. Accordingly,...

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...will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.— Thomas Jefferson Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.— Thomas Paine 145 The right to vote is not just any ordinary right — it is the essential, defining...

...difficile concepire, a loro 15 TH. PAINE, Common Sense (1776), Dover Publications, Mineola 1997, p. 3. [«Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil [...]. Government like dress is thè badge of lost innocence; thè palaces of kings are built on thè...

...primary reason for existence is to coerce obedience to natural law. As Tom Paine puts it in Common Sense, "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government,...even in its best state, is but a necessary evil." Government coercion always represents a threat to liberty and in particular to that most important...

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...have a limited scope and sphere of functions. To quote him. "While society in any state is a blessing, government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil: in its worst state, an intolerable one". Nock According to Nock, the power of the state is not original but derived from the power of society....