Pascal on Might and Right

"It is right to follow the right, it is necessary to follow the mighty.

Right without might is helpless, might without right is tyranical.

Right without might is challenged, because there are always evil men about.  Might without right is denounced.  We must therefore combine right and might, and to that end make right into might or might into right.

Right is open to dispute, might is easily recognized and beyond dispute.  Therefore right could not be made mighty because might challenged right, calling it unjust and itself claiming to be just.

Being unable to make right into might, we have made might into right."

Pascal, Pensees