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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
– Rousseau

b. 1712 CE – d. 1778 CE

Jean Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss philosopher and writer whose work influenced the leaders of both the American and French Revolutions.

He is perhaps most well-known for his essay, The Social Contract.