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Tag: liberty

  • Quote: Thomas Jefferson

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    >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 rights of the individual. –Thomas Jefferson

  • Quote: Benjamin Franklin

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    “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755