 | William H. Graves - 1917 - 220 pages
...little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society in every state is a blessing, but Government,...worst state, an intolerable one; for when we suffer, we are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a country without Government;... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - Industrial relations - 1922 - 332 pages
...encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. "Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by the government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by... | |
 | Jesse Lee Bennett - American literature - 1925 - 374 pages
...which the government itself had encouraged. But with respect to England there are also other causes. Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. sh surfer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon... | |
 | John Storck - Civilization - 1926 - 240 pages
...think1ng; but this saves time! Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. . . . Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. . . . Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1927 - 286 pages
...encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...to the same miseries by a government which we might effect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the... | |
 | Bill Press - Political Science - 2002 - 272 pages
...propaganda ever printed, Tom Paine painted the revolution as necessary to get rid of government — "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil" — when what the revolution really did was replace one government with another, albeit better, more... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 300 pages
...encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government...necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. Common Sense, 1776 Necessity, like a gravitating power, would soon form . . . society. Common Sense,... | |
 | Brian McCartin - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 116 pages
...government to establish their freedom. He started by first examining governments themselves. Paine stated, "Society in every state is a blessing, but government...necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." Paine said that governments were necessary only because of the "inability of moral virtue to govern... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...well-established among those who favored the "contract" theory of government, between society and government. "Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...even in its best state, is but a necessary evil." Government is "a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world." The... | |
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one... 
