The Limits of Force

"It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village." - Voltaire, sometime in the 1750s. "It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules." - Rousseau, in 1762 File these under Enlightenment ideas that were prelude to 1776.