The ideal government must combine the principles of justice and mercy.
Justice means equity, impartiality and the unerring application of an inexorable law.
Everyone who is conscious of his own failings, will be compassionate toward the mistakes of others. The exercise of justice and mercy appear to be inimical. The human mind requires both, but finds them impossible to combine. The ideal government will extend absolute justice and at the same time will not fail to show mercy. And any system of government that fails to combine justice and mercy will one day fall by the weight of its own corruption.