Tom Paine is the most quotable man who ever lived, with the possible exception of Jack Handey. Whether you believe what Mr. Paine said or not, it's really hard to argue with him.
Government, like, dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistably obeyed, man would need no other law-giver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least.
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