for-where-the.md (835B)
1 --- 2 attributed: false 3 date: '1776-02-14' 4 draft: false 5 lang: 'en' 6 misattributed: false 7 tags: ['Advise', 'Conscience', 'Evil', 'Governance', 'Knowledge', 'Law', 'Reasoning', 'Thinking'] 8 title: 'For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver' 9 unverified: false 10 --- 11 12 # *For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least.* 13 — Thomas Paine, in Philadelphia, February 14, 1776 <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780143036258">Common Sense 14 </abbr></cite>.