We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

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.

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.

He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.