“ In a word, it is the best and most natural arrangement that the wisest should govern the many, when it is assured that they will govern for its profit, and not for their own. ”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762). copy citation
Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Source | The Social Contract |
Topic | wisdom profit government |
Date | 1762 |
Language | English |
Reference | Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Law, Book III |
Note | Translated by George Douglas Howard Cole |
Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract/Book_III |