Thoms Jefferson
Principle author of the American Declaration of Independence, Third President of The United States 1743 – 1826

“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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