Multiple choice

Who said, 'Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains'?

  1. Jean Jacques Rousseau

  2. Shakespeare

  3. Wordsworth

  4. Lord Tennyson
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Explanation

Jean Jacques Rousseau, the famous French philosopher, wrote this line in his seminal work 'The Social Contract' (1762). This quote encapsulates his belief that while humans are born naturally free, they become constrained by social institutions and political systems. Rousseau's philosophy greatly influenced the French Revolution and democratic thought.

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