A Conflict of Visions

"Those who dare to undertake the institution of a people must feel themselves capable, as it were, of changing human nature, of transforming each individual...into a part of a much greater whole...of altering the constitution of a man for the purpose of strengthening it."
--Jean Jacques Rousseau

"We cannot change the nature of things nor of men, but must act upon them as best we can."
--Edmund Burke