“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.” —Thomas Paine (1776)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine may be read in its entirety beginning here:
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/sense2.htm
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