The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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More Quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
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Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly two be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Racial discrimination is not a permissible solution... that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.