...was admirably set forth. In its pages one could read that government is a necessary evil, and that palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. If men believed this, they naturally believed that a return to nature would be a return to happiness;...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...