...received little attention. Common Sense begins with the following introduction: "Some writers have so confounded society with government as to leave little...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a...

...opening paragraph of Common Sense makes this re-evaluation of the public and private realms explicit: "society is produced by our wants and government by...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices." With characteristic audacity, Paine reduces the virtues of classical republicanism to simple policing...

...DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL. WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary...

...organi2ation. As Paine articulated it, society was a positive phenomenon, government a negative one: "Society is produced by our wants and government by...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher." For Paine, government itself was a "badge of lost innocence," a sign that the original...

...point is made with his usual vigor at the beginning of Tom Paine's Common Sense (Philadelphia, 1776): Society is produced by our wants, and government by...the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Most recently, with the profound changes which have taken place...

...its underlying rationale had been announced in the first paragraph of Common Sense when he said that: 'Society is produced by our wants and government by...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.' In what looks in retrospect like a pre-emptive strike against such notions, Burke had given a diametrically...

...allow — not force — this to happen. (Thomas Paine, calling government "a necessary evil," said, "Society is produced by our wants and government by...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices [original emphasis]."49) Give people the freedom to pursue their ends and make contracts, and justice...

...fine expression to the society/state contrast: 'Society and government are different in themselves and have different origins. Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness. Society is in every state a blessing; government even in its best state but a necessary evil.' Tocqueville...

...assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed." Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BC in Rome Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Thomas Paine, COMMON SENSE -1776 Little has changed in the management of the state for...

...trennt, in ersterer das »System der Bedürfnisse« sieht, in letzterem nur ein notwendiges Übel (65): »Society is produced by our wants, and government...the latter negatively by restraining our vices.« Madison hatte in »government« einen positiven Ordnungs- und Hamilton einen aktiven Wirtschaftsfaktor...