Common Sense

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil;

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; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil

One of the strongest NATURAL proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ASS FOR A LION.

IT IS WHOLLY OWING TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE, AND NOT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT

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NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices

Time makes more converts than reason

Time makes more converts than reason.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness;