...rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience. "..."The rights of men in governments are their advantages;...good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil." This is the "utilitarian" principle which found its classic expression in Jeremy Bentham's dictum that...

...the quackery of that class whom he styles the " amateurs and even professors of revolutions." " The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned." 2. The management of the State not being among the original rights of man, does not belong equally...

...extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned Political reason is a computing principle, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing morally and...