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Rightful Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break…
- It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no…
- Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and…
- 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…
- All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to…
- 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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