The power of III

Summum ius summa iniuria--More law, less justice
--Cicero.

08 February 2011

Quote of the Day 2/8

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. 

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy... 

These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations, Circa 1774

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