Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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Now, as a law directed against the mass of the nation has not the nature of a reasonable institution, so neither has it the authority: for in all forms of government the people is the true legislator; and whether the immediate and instrumental cause of the law be a single person or many, the remote and efficient cause is the consent of the people, either actual or implied ; and such consent is absolutely essential to its validity.
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What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who ha...
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Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. Th...
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In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.
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