Quotes by Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. >>

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is ne >>

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. >>

Quotations about Elections

Votes should be weighed not counted. >>

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. >>

Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count. >>

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques