QUOTE
THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
OR
PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL RIGHT
Fœderis æquas
Dicamus leges
— Virgil, Æneid XI
Dicamus leges
— Virgil, Æneid XI
BOOK I
I mean to inquire if, in the civil order, there can be any sure and legitimate rule of administration, men being taken as they are and laws as they might be. In this inquiry I shall endeavour always to unite what right sanctions with what is prescribed by interest, in order that justice and utility may in no case be divided.
— Jean Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contractâ€, Great Books of The Western World, Vol. 38.