Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
Another excerpt from Common Sense
(Now I need to email my old Lit. Teacher and tell him that he was right and I would use what he taught me at least once in my life LOL)