They must war with each other till one of them is extinguished.

It was so in France and....
I shall not pursue this topic further, but, as you are a teacher of purity of morals, I cannot but remind you of that atmosphere of corruption without which it should seem that courts cannot exist.
You seem anxious to explain what ought to be understood by the equality of men in a state of civil society; but your Lordship's success has not answered your trouble.

If you had looked in the articles of the Rights of Man, you would have found your efforts superseded: 'Equality, without which liberty cannot exist, is to be met with in perfection in that State in which no distinctions are admitted but such as have evidently for their object the general good;' 'The end of government cannot be attained without authorising some members of the society to command, and of course without imposing on the rest the necessity of obedience.' Here, then, is an inevitable inequality, which may be denominated that of power.

In order to render this as small as possible, a legislator will be careful not to give greater force to such authority than is essential to its due execution.

Government is at best but a necessary evil.