Thomas Paine Government Quotes & Sayings


 Thomas Paine quotes 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
Suggest Revision: Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
Suggest Revision: Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
Suggest Revision: The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
Suggest Revision: The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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 branches.
 
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 Thomas Paine quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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 those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.
 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
Suggest Revision: Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
Suggest Revision: From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
 Thomas Paine quotes 
Suggest Revision: Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
 
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