The Social Contract

War then is a relation, not between man and man, but between State and State, and individuals are enemies only accidentally, not as men, nor even as citizens,3 but as soldiers; not as members of their country, but as its defenders.

MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

THE most ancient of all societies, and the only one that is natural, is the family: