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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

— Adam Smith

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

— Plato

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

— Sigmund Freud

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

— Benjamin Tucker

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

— William Godwin

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

— Xun Kuang

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

— Rene Descartes

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

— Mason Cooley

✗Opposing Perspectives

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

— Thomas Paine