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Our Legislators Are Not Sufficiently Apprized Of The Rightful Limits Of Their Powe
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Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of
their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our
natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 1816
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
-- Thomas Jefferso...
Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. -- Blaise Pascal
Our rights remain rights only as long as we have the prudence not to test them -- Mark Twai
In the process of getting our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred....
This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1826, Last Word
This is the Fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, last words (July 4, 1826)