Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a country without Government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness the former promotes our happiness possitively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. ON THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.
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