A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature,…

Thomas Jefferson
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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, p.118
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