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At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Country, Men, Perfect
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.74, Courier Corporation

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Country, Princess, Cake
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1907). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Newly Translated Into English”

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Country, Eye, Sight

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Country, War, Men
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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