 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1837 - 716 pages
...man—it is to these things, infinitely more than any thing which even the best instituted government can perform, that the safety and prosperity of the...affairs, and govern itself; but so contrary is the practic* of old governments to the reason of the case, that the expenses of \hern increase in the proportion... | |
 | Thomas Branagan, Julius Rubens Ames - Charity organization - 1839 - 404 pages
...it is to these things, infinitely more than to any thing which even the best instituted government can perform, that the safety and prosperity of the individual and of the whole depend. " The more perfect civilization is, the less occasion has it for government, because the more... | |
 | Thomas Paine - France - 1856 - 168 pages
...it ij to these things, infinitely more than to any thing which even the bt=i instituted government can perform, that the safety and prosperity of the...of the whole depends. The more perfect civilization ia, the less occasion has it for government, because the more does it regulate its own affairs, and... | |
 | University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1900 - 244 pages
...more often expresses it, of " human wickedness." "The more perfect civilization is," he tells us, " the less occasion has it for government, because the...does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself . . . " w " Government is no farther necessary than to supply the few cases to which society and civilization... | |
 | Michael Hendrick Fitch - Ethics - 1908 - 424 pages
...rights, in return for what he contributes to the welfare of the state. Paine in his "Rights of Man" says, "The more perfect civilization is, the less occasion...does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself." He means by this that the more the intellect is developed, the less is man inclined to encroach on... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1908 - 374 pages
...it is to these things, infinitely more than to any thing which even the best instituted government can perform, that the safety and prosperity of the...depends. The more perfect civilization is, the less occa229 sion has it for government, because the more does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself;... | |
 | Francis William Coker - Political science - 1914 - 618 pages
...man—it is to these things, infinitely more than to anything which even the best instituted government can perform, that the safety and prosperity of the individual and of the whole depend. The more perfect civilization is, the less occasion has it for government, because the more... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Judges - 1916 - 664 pages
...abolished," said he, "society begins to act; . . . and common interest produces common security." And again: "The more perfect civilization is, the less occasion has it for government. ... It is but few general laws that civilised life requires." Holding up our own struggle for liberty... | |
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The more perfect civilization is, the less occasion has it for government, because the more does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself... 
