) “Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil”. Thomas Paine.

For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver, but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up

“Absolute governments (though the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them: that they are simple;if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering

For the right men have by nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them can by no covenant be relinquished

The difference of commonwealths consisteth in the difference of the sovereign, or the person representative of all and every one of the multitude

“But man, whose joy consisteth in comparing himself with other men, can relish nothing but what is eminent”

“The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative, is that there may be laws made

This would be still as great liberty, as he himself had before his compact, or any one else in the state of nature hath, who may submit himself, and consent to any acts

Men being,as has been said,by nature,all free,equal,& independent,no one can be put out of this estate,& subjected to the political power of another without his only consent

What era does the enlightment thinking take place in

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