| Francis William Coker - 1914 - 608 sidor
...suffer. 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...uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property... | |
| John McFarland Kennedy - 1914 - 430 sidor
...explained to a large and enthusiastic circle of leaders that all government was a necessary evil, that " the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of Paradise," that a return to nature would be a return to happiness, and, further, that since government was a necessary... | |
| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1916 - 1216 sidor
...the harvest which Thomas Jefferson gathered. "Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise." And again, "Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness." 2 So ran the flaming... | |
| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1916 - 562 sidor
...the harvest which Thomas Jefferson gathered. "Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise." And again, "Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness."2 So ran the flaming... | |
| William H. Graves - 1917 - 224 sidor
...that we furnish the means of which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of Kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise Wherefore, security being the true design and end of Government, it unanswerably follows, that whatever... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 sidor
...surfer. 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...uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property... | |
| 1927 - 286 sidor
...that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the...uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver. But that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property... | |
| Merrill Jensen - 1940 - 318 sidor
...is the badge of lost innocence." Reverence for monarchial authority was jolted by the assertion that "the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise." The common man was exalted above artistocracy in the declaration "John Penn to Thomas Person, February... | |
| John Zvesper - 1977 - 258 sidor
...other.'44 In 'Common Sense,' Paine had postulated that government was 'the badge of lost innocence': 'were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other law-giver.'45 He did not say that these subjunctives could be made indicative, but in the Rights of... | |
| Alfred Owen Aldridge - 1984 - 340 sidor
...proprietorship of the rest. According to Paine, "government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."6 Here he clearly associates the Christian doctrine of the fall of man with popular eighteenth-century... | |
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