Which of the following lines from Common Sense best supports the idea that an unjust and
corrupt government is ultimately the fault of the people who gave the government its power and
allow it to continue?
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"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 calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish
the means by which we suffer."
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"Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it
swerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to
ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is
preferable to all others."
"Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of
kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise."
"A thousand motives will excite them thereto; the strength of one man
is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual
solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of
another, who in his turn requires the same."