Thomas Jefferson on The Right to Life and Liberty


	Thomas Jefferson on The Right to Life and Liberty

Maxwell_Smart

11-19-2008 6:36 AM

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Some self-evident truth that carries with it the force to change our way of thinking and in turn change the way we govern ourselves.

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"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774.  ME 1:211, Papers 1:135
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"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will.  But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.  I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." --Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819.
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." --Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791.  ME 8:276
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"In a government bottomed on the will of all, the life and liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all." --Thomas Jefferson: 5th Annual Message, 1805.  ME 3:390
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