Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Quotes About Social Contract

• The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Foundation, Conquest, Strongest

• It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Peaceful, Foundation, Firsts

• What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Men, Society, Trying

  "Du Contrat Social" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole, 1913.

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