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Liberty Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force…
- 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…
- The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
- Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
- In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is…
- To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no…
- Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him…
- Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
- Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
- Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
- I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
- To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
- "Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend all members of…
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