Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes about Freedom

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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom, Political, Liberty

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 1 (1762)

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom, People, Liberty

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom, Believe, People

"Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole, III, Ch. 15, 1913.