Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes about Liberty

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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

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

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty, May

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.163, Jean Jacques Rousseau

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Money, Liberty, Slavery

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, transl”, p.30

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty, Revolution, States

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Law, Liberty, Obedience

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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Government, Liberty, Association