Wednesday, October 14, 2009

BY WHICH WE SUFFER

From tweetfeed of @LibertarianMike

When I read this I immediately recalled something from 17 years ago.

I had my infant son on a changing table freshly bathed, so soft, so sweet... aaahhhhh baths are so nice surely nothing could ruin this moment. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Giving the situation a closer look I saw his little fingers had found their way behind his head and grabbed a lock of hair, furnishing the means by which he suffered.

(1/3) Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an
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# (2/3) intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries *by a government*, which we might expect in a country
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# (3/3) *without government*, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." -- Thomas Paine
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