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Author : Jean Jacques Rousseau
: The Social Contract, or the Principles of Right
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It may be added that there have been known States so constituted that the necessity of making conquests entered into their very constitution, and that, in order to maintain themselves, they were forced to expand ceaselessly. It may be that they congratulated themselves greatly on this fortunate necessity, which none the less indicated to them, along with the limits of their greatness, the inevitable moment of their fall.
From : Book 2, Chapter 9..
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