Thomas Paine Quote

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.


Rights of Man... Fifth edition (ed. 1791)


Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right...

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right...

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right...

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right...