It is better to suffer a little evil than to do a great deal of good in a wrong way.
Common Sense, Rights of Man
Attributed, but difficult to find in his major works with this exact phrasing.
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"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Controversial"He that is not a patriot, if he has the soul of a man, must be a traitor."
Humorous"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
Controversial"It [hereditary succession] appears under all the various characters of childhood, decrepitude, dotage, a thing at nurse, in leading-strings, or in crutches. It reverses the wholesome order of nature. …"
Humorous"The greatest part of the world are born to poverty and wretchedness, not for want of abilities in themselves, but from the want of opportunities to exert them."
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