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Limits Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
- A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.…
- Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
- It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the…
- Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
- I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
- Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power…
- A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person,…
- 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…
- 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…
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