In Proportion As You Give The State

As Might Be Supposed, My Parents Were Quite Poor, But We Somehow Never Seemed To Lack Anything We Needed, And I Never Saw A Trace Of Discontent Or A Failure In Cheerfulness Over Their Lot In Life, As Indeed Over Anything.

It Is Certainly True That Whatever A Man May Do Or Say, The Most Significant Thing About Him Is What He Thinks; And Significant Also Is How He Came To Think It, Why He Continued To Think It, Or, If He Did Not Continue, What The Influences Were Which Caused Him To Change His Mind.

It Would Seem That In Paine's View The Code Of Government Should Be That Of The Legendary King Pausole, Who Prescribed But Two Laws For His Subjects, The First Being, Hurt No Man, And The Second, Then Do As You Please.

For The Majority Of People Liberty Means Only The System And The Administrators They Are Used To.

The State Always Moves Slowly And Grudgingly Towards Any Purpose That Accrues To Society's Advantage, But Moves Rapidly And With Alacrity Towards One That Accrues To Its Own Advantage; Nor Does It Ever Move Towards Social Purposes On Its Own Initiative, But Only Under Heavy Pressure, While Its Motion Towards Anti-social Purposes Is Self-sprung.