"It's only merit was in being the..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.
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“It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.”
“Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.”
“The dead should not rule the living”
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“My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.”
“The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for. It issued finally in that inestimable state of freedom which alone can ensure to man the enjoyment of his equal rights.”
“No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.”