There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWar is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau