Graphic Quotes: Thomas Jefferson on Law and Tyrants

“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, Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 Apr 1819)

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