Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseauwas a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 June 1712
CityGeneva, Switzerland
CountryFrance
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The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
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Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
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The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
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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 fine and just.
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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
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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 everywhere.
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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 of all.
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body