Evan Kurth

“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;”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“People are constantly forced to choose between having freedom and having success and stability; freedom with suffering or happiness without freedom. The majority choose the latter.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

“WHEREFORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expence and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense