 | Graeme Fife - 2006 - 476 páginas
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 | Gene W. Heck - 2007 - 304 páginas
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 | Gene W. Heck - 2007 - 304 páginas
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 | Tim Cox - 2007 - 306 páginas
...spending that is out of control, and issues the government will not resolve. Thomas Paine warned us, "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." George Washington expressed the same sentiment when he said, "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence,... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2007 - 235 páginas
...American sentiment of robust skepticism regarding the role of the government in the Social Compact: [G]overnment even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . . Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of the kings are built on... | |
 | Randal O'Toole - 2007 - 434 páginas
...recent attitude. Before the Great Depression, most Americans agreed with Thomas Paine's statement, "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."9 "A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice," said Henry... | |
 | Christian Bacher - 2007 - 29 páginas
...year, when PAINE wrote that well-known phrase about the state and its representing government that is 'even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one" (PAINE 1776, SI). Therefore the experience of authority and colonial capriciousness ought not to return... | |
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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.... 
