"The urgent consideration of the public safety may……" — Edward Gibbon

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation… - Edward Gibbon

"The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant."

— Edward Gibbon

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