Jean-Jacques Rousseau Liberty Quotations

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

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

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

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.

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

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

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.

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.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.