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Right Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
- No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to…
- I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
- Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go…
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
- The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act…
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a…
- No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education…
- If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of…
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
- A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
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