"Some writers have so confounded society with government, as 
    to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they 
    are not only different, but have different origins...the one
    encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The 
    first a patron, the last a punisher."

   "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...our calamity is heightened by 
    reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."

   "I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in 
    nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple 
    any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the 
    easier repaired when disordered..."

    - Thomas Paine (1737-1809), Common Sense (1776)