 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1824 - 478 pages
...our wickedness ; the former promotes our happiness positively, by uniting our affections, the latter negatively, by restraining our vices. The one encourages...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1824 - 524 pages
...our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively, by uniting our affections, the latter negatively, by restraining our vices. The one encourages...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1826 - 470 pages
...our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a... | |
 | 1832 - 572 pages
...hap' piness positively, by uniting our affections ; the latter nega' tively, by restraining our vices. Society in every state is a ' blessing ; but government, even in its best state, is but a ne' cessary evil. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost in' nocence : the palaces of kings are... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1835 - 552 pages
...our wickedness ; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a puriisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in Its best state, is but... | |
 | Free thought - 1842 - 1124 pages
...JAN. 29, (0. S.) 1737. AT GKEENWJCH, NEW-VOKF, JCNB 8, 1809. i o« THOMAS PAINE. FROM COMMON SENSE. Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...necessary evil ; in its worst state an intolerable one ; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1856 - 542 pages
...The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing,...necessary evil ; in its worst state an intolerable one ; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - America - 1857 - 512 pages
...axioms may be interesting here : " Society," he says, " in every state is a blessing ; but government in its best state is but a necessary evil ; in its worst state an intolerable one.1 ° ° ° " Here, too," he said, " is the design and end of government, viz., Freedom and Security.... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - New England - 1857 - 498 pages
...axioms may be interesting here : " Society/' he says, " in every state is a blessing ; but government in its best state is but a necessary evil ; in its worst state an intolerable one.1 * * * " Here, too," he said, " is the design and end of government, viz., Freedom and Security.... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Biography - 1880 - 412 pages
...our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a puuisher. " Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best estate, is... | |
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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.... 
