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Law Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
- It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil…
- With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
- Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt…
- Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
- Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition…
- No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would…
- In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state…
- To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions…
- What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution…
- Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
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