Thomas Jefferson on Unalienable Rights
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
Thomas Jefferson, 1781 in Query XVIII of his Notes on the State of Virginia, as well as engraved on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C.
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