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Dissatisfaction Quotes
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of th...
Dreams, Hopes, and Plans Quotes
The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. (2.1-2)
Rules and Order Quotes
No person shall be accused, arrested, or imprisoned except in the cases and according to the forms prescribed by law. Any one soliciting, transmitting, executing, or causing to be executed, any arb...
Rights and Privileges Quotes
Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the...
Equality Quotes
Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good. (1.1)