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 the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

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Thomas Jefferson

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1064 He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
1073 War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
1077 The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
1107 If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
1078 The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

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