Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Terimi tam anlamı ile ele alırsak, hakiki demokrasi hiç bir zaman mevcut olmadığı gibi bundan sonra da olmayacaktır. Çok sayıdakilerin az sayıdakileri idaresi tabii nizama aykırıdır.

One advantage resulting from good actions is that they elevate the soul to a disposition of attempting still better; for such is human weakness, that we must place among our good deeds an abstinence from those crimes we are tempted to commit.

So long as government and law provide for the security and well-being of men in their common life, the arts, literature and the sciences, less despotic though perhaps more powerful, fling garlands of flowers over the chains which weight them down. They stifle in men's breasts that sense of original liberty, for which they seem to have been born; cause them to love their own slavery, and so make of them what is called a civilized people.