To: Cathryn Crawford
The only thing worse than government is no government. Then you are in the state of nature, where, as Thomas Hobbes said in Leviathan (or words to this effect), "Life is poor, nasty, brutal, and short."
16 posted on
12/09/2003 2:18:15 PM PST by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
The problem with all of those guys like Hobbes is that they have said most of the best things and done so long ago.
60 posted on
12/09/2003 3:24:39 PM PST by
William McKinley
(Dean's a little teapot, short and stout. When he gets all steamed up, hear him shout!)
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