Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.