 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 444 strani
...encourages intercourse, (he other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government...were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 524 strani
...encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government...were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he fmds it... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 478 strani
...one ; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expert in a country without government, our calamity is heightened...were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver ; but that not being the case, he finds it... | |
 | William Grisenthwaite - 1825 - 314 strani
...work, which I am now examining, Mr. Paine, in his Common Sense, had written such a sentence as this! " Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence, the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise !" Such are the inconsistencies of Mr. Paine. They cannot be... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 470 strani
...encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government...of lost innocence ; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly... | |
 | 1832 - 572 strani
...evil. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost in' nocence : the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the ' bowers of paradise. For, were the...uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other law' giver ; but, that not being the case, he finds it necessary to sur' render up a part of his property,... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 strani
...happiness. — Economist. CHAPTER III. OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT. SECTION I. THE ORIGIN AND OBJECTS OP GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of Paradise. For, were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 strani
...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,...are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. Security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof... | |
 | George Lippard - 1847 - 558 strani
...at this book of " no particular merit :" for a work so weak, this is a somewhat forcible sentence. " Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence...are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise." Listen to Common Sense on Monarchy : " For monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government.... | |
 | Joseph Osgood Barrett - 1878 - 412 strani
...of the East, 'tis the land of the sun 1 Can he smile on each deeds as his children have done ? " " Government, like dress, is the badge of lost Innocence : the palaces of kings are built en the mini of the bowers of paradise." — THOMAS PAINE. ONE October morning, at its first gray, our... | |
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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... 
