An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
Jean-Jacques RousseauOnce you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
Jean-Jacques RousseauOne may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
Jean-Jacques RousseauIt is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau