No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of…

Thomas Jefferson
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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.278
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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.278

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