William Batchelder Greene Quote

Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.


Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments (ed. 1875)


Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and...

Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and...

Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and...

Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and...