Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish,
we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when
we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

¿Cómo se han de querer? Sólo en sí mismo piensa cada uno.