A good read indeed
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..
~ Thomas Paine ~ (1737-1809)
US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
Source.. Common Sense, February 14, 1776