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Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its bra...more

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We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Inv...more

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That government is best which governs least.

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Kill the king but spare the man.

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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

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A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

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Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

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Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

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Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government ne...more

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Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.

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There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at the very source...more

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That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when tho...more

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I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the evidence I have produ...more