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“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
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“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived..." (Bk2:3)”
― The Social Contract
― The Social Contract
“Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.”
― The Social Contract
― The Social Contract
“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”
― The Social Contract
― The Social Contract
“Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.”
― The Social Contract
― The Social Contract
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