Who said “The general happiness is the end of the state”?

Jeremy Bentham said that “The general happiness is the end of the state”. Jeremy Bentham was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfareism. He is best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism and animal rights and the idea of the panopticon.