Get Back to Common Sense. Sometimes I wish that the Spirit of Thomas Pain would step forward again. His Common Sense is deplorably adrift in this patchwork quilt of Democracy juxtaposed incongruently to Socialist needs. Common sense tells us that Government is a necessary evil. There are things that it must and should do. It must govern the factions and the larger powers so that Fanny May and Big Bank and etc. do not run wild and destroy the financial security of a nation. It must enforce the larger laws that keep peace. It must protect our borders and create and use military service where needed. I share a little “Common Sense” written in 1776 by one of our best American Thinkers: “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, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.” “For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least”. My friends on Facebook, we could all do well to read the book and be part of the answer that brings back Common Sense! We the people have created this problem during our efforts to create a more perfect union. We the people can grouse about it endlessly or we can do something about it, but it will take time, patience, and Common Sense.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:28:26 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015