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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

Thomas Paine
War, Government, Extortion
Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.109
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?