
“ In a well-governed State, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a State is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity. ”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762). copy citation
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Date
1762
Language
English
Reference
Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Law, Book II
Note
Translated by George Douglas Howard Cole