Note 128 — TRANSLATION[107] “PERPETUAL PEACE”[108]
Mary Campbell Smith translation
“The strongest are still never sufficiently strong to ensure them the continual mastership, unless they find means of transforming force into right, and obedience into duty.
From the right of the strongest, right takes an ironical appearance, and is rarely established as a principle.” (Contrat Social, I. Ch. III.) [Tr.]