| Catherine Spooner - 2004 - 236 sidor
...as similar indications of a fallen state: 'Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.'41 Reversing the association of radicalism and lack of corsetry, the caricaturist Gillray... | |
| Thomas Paine - 2006 - 81 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... | |
| Eric Flint, Virginia Easley DeMarce - 2006 - 382 sidor
...a patron, the last a punisher." Hey, this was a good one! "... 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... | |
| Robert A. FERGUSON, Robert A Ferguson - 2009 - 374 sidor
...flourish in social interaction. "Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence;" Paine warned, "the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."51 The implications for Americans choosing between their king and their independence were... | |
| Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 sidor
...that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; he case of Greece Rome & other antient States; the...all ages one half of mankind have been slaves. If th lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property... | |
| Michael Warren - 2007 - 235 sidor
...an intolerable one . . . Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of the kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise....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... | |
| Harry Davis - 2007 - 264 sidor
...mutual security, is another. 'Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.' 'Were the impulses of conscience clear, 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... | |
| Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 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 bowers of paradise. . . . I know it is difficult to get over local or long standing prejudices, yet if we will suffer ourselves... | |
| Crispin Sartwell - 2014 - 138 sidor
...Paine (a man who had some sympathy with anarchism) said, government is produced by our wickedness. "For were the impulses of conscience clear, 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... | |
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