Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Individual Rights
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Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
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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.
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