"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. 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 impulses of _conscience_ clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other law-giver; but that not being the case, he finds it _necessary_ to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least." _Junius._ "It is not in the nature of human society that any form of government in such circumstances can long be preserved."--Let. 35. "The multitude in all countries are patient to a certain point. Ill usage may rouse their indignation and hurry them into excesses, but the original fault is in government. "The ruin or prosperity of a state depends so much upon the administration of its government, that to be acquainted with the merit of a ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people."--Let. 1. "If _conscience_ plays the tyrant it would be greatly for the benefit of the world that she were more arbitrary and far less placable than some men find her."--Let. 27. "I lament the unhappy _necessity_ whenever it arises of providing for the safety of the state by a temporary invasion of the personal liberty of the subject."--Let. 58. "Junius feels and acknowledges the evil in the most express terms, and will show himself ready to concur in any rational plan that may provide for the liberty of the individual without hazarding the safety of the community."--Let. 63. Mr. Paine now proceeds to form a government upon an ideal plan, and show the origin of those first principles which would operate in the first peopling of a country. "But as nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice," the natural restraints of society will not be sufficient to check it; this will necessitate the establishment of a government. At first, the whole colony may deliberate, and in the first parliament every man will have a seat. But as the colony increases this can not be done, because inconvenience prohibits it. He now observes: _Common Sense._