Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Birthdate: June 28, 1712
Birthplace: Geneva, Switzerland
Date of Death: July 2, 1778
Occupation: Author, Composer, and Philosopher
Profile: Best known for
The Social Contract.
Website: http://www.iep.utm.edu/rousseau/
Number of Quotes: 2
If we take the term in the strict sense, there never has been a real democracy, and there never
will be. It is against the natural order for the many to govern and the few to be governed.
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.