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Quotation from A Discourse on Political Economy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“no liberty without virtue, no virtue without citizens”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (spoken by Rousseau)

A Discourse on Political Economy, Second rule (education), trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)

Part of Rousseau's chain of conditions: no patriotism without liberty, no liberty without virtue, no virtue without citizens; he then turns to the education of children.

Citation: "no liberty without virtue, no virtue without citizens" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Political Economy, Second rule (education), trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id rousseau-discourse-on-political-economy-q7)

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