If the laws of nations, like the laws of nature, could never be broken by any human power, dependence on men… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

If the laws of nations, like the laws of nature, could never be broken by any human power, dependence on men would become dependence on things; all the advantages of a state of nature would be combined with all the advantages of social life in the commonwealth. The liberty which preserves a man from vice would be united with the morality which raises him to virtue.

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