The ruler alone has the right to deliberate [think about] and decide.  The functions of all the other members consist only in carrying out the commands given to them . . . . The more you give . . . [to the assembled people], the more they claim . . . The interest of the state must come first.

Things only become legal because I wish it, I am the state.

Men being . . . by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be . . . subjected to the political power of another without his own consent [permission]. . . . To protect natural rights governments are established . . . . When legislators [leaders] try to destroy or take away the property of the people, or try to reduce them to slavery, they put themselves in to a state of war with the people who can then refuse to obey the laws.