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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is 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 to suffer in a country without government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnished the means by which we suffer”
Haha! Paine could easily be writing in 2026..