Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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