In the Middle Ages, when it was very difficult to overtake offenders, the judges inflicted the most dreadful tortures on the few who were arrested, which by no means diminished the number of crimes. It has since been discovered that when justice is more certain and more mild, it is at the same time more efficacious. The English and the Americans hold that tyranny and oppression are to be treated like any other crime, by lessening the penalty and facilitating conviction.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
The jury, then, which seems to restrict the rights of magistracy, does in reality consolidate its power, and in no country are the judges so powerful as there, where the people partakes their privileges. It is more especially by means of the jury in civil causes that the American magistrates imbue all classes of society with the spirit of their profession. Thus the jury, which is the most energetic means of making the people rule, is also the most efficacious means of teaching it to rule well.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
That is my method of finding out how to get from one place to another. It is not as dignified, perhaps, as B.'s, but it is simpler and more efficacious.英文原著 · 《Diary of a Pilgrimage》
General View of the Subject. Deplorable State of those who are reduced to Poverty. No Body of Laws can be so framed as to provide efficaciously for their Wants. Only adequate Relief that can be afforded them must be derived from the voluntary Assistance of the Humane and Benevolent. How that Assistance is to be secured. Objections to the Expence of taking care of the Poor answered Of the Means of introducing a Scheme for the Relief of the Poor.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
And we see that Providence, ever attentive to provide remedies for the disorders which the progress of society occasions in the world, has provided for idleness--as soon as the condition of society renders it a vice, but not before--a punishment every way suited to its nature, and calculated to prevent its prevalency and pernicious consequences:--This is WANT,--and a most efficacious remedy it is for the evil,--when the WISDOM OF MAN does not interfere to counteract it, and prevent its salutary effects.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
The most certain and efficacious relief that can be given to the Poor is that which would be afforded them by forming a general Establishment for giving them useful employment, and furnishing them with the necessaries of life at a cheap rate; in short, forming a Public Establishment similar in all respects to that already recommended, and making it as extensive as circumstances will permit.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》