"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." | by: | Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author |
Source: | Common Sense, February 14, 1776 |
| |
