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Defying The Tyrant’s Will

Thomas Jefferson

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.

        -Thomas Jefferson

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What A Grand Time In History To Be Blogging!

 

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.”

                –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:57

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“Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.”

–Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786.