Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens."
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Inalienable Rights
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour."
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"Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong."
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"To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse."
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