It is but few general laws that civilised life requires, and those of such common usefulness, that whether they are enforced by the forms of government or not, the effect will be nearly the same.
From "Rights of Man," this passage asserts that civilized life needs only a few universally useful laws, whose effectiveness is largely independent of governmental enforcement.
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