It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty. (Jeremy Bentham)

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Jeremy Bentham

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