Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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