PHAEDO - Surely that is so, for power is but concentrated ability to
enjoy, and where most power lies, there lies most ability to enjoy, and
therefore the highest possible aggregate of human happiness, in the
attainment of which the will of the gods shall be done.

SOCRATES - And if a company can take part of a continent, but not the
whole, whatever they are able to take is theirs.

PHAEDO - Undoubtedly.

SOCRATES - And what is theirs is not the property of others.

PHAEDO - By no means.

SOCRATES - And if it does not belong to others, others may not lawfully
use it.

PHAEDO - Surely not.

SOCRATES - And they who do own it may prevent others from entering it.

PHAEDO - Surely, for hath not the poet said:

"That they shall take who have the power,
And they may keep who can."

SOCRATES - Therefore it is plain that the United States may keep
Chinamen out of America.

PHAEDO - There can be no doubt of it whatever.