Thomas Jefferson | Democratic-Republican Party1
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.
1The Democratic-Republican Party was the dominant political party in the United States from 1800-1824; it then split in to two factions, one of which became the modern day Democratic Party.
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons, Painting by Rembrandt Peale
Quotation: Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, April 4, 1819 in Appleby and Ball (1999) p 224.
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