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Thomas Jefferson: “Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will…”

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the 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 right of an individual.” — Thomas Jefferson, in letter… Read More »