...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society is in every state a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. On the basis of passages such as this, which are repeated throughout his political writings, some writers...

...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 [1776] (1976) 65). "Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of...

...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.9 Once liberty has been given the definition which prevails in liberal doctrine - once it has been...

...involved in both revolutions, gave the clearest expression of the civil conception of the Americans: 'Society in every state is a blessing, but government...necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.'2 An historically self-constituted society, which had to suffer the vexations imposed by the British...

...them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state,...necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses...

...pupil of itself alone. It is the oldest of the sciences" Thomas PAINE: The Rights of Man (1792) 246 "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one" Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) 260 "/ do not wish them to have power...