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Quotes from A Summary View of the Rights of British America — Thomas Jefferson

1743–1826 United States

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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

A free people [claim] their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

There are extraordinary situations which require extraordinary interposition. An exasperated people, who feel that they possess power, are not easily restrained within limits strictly regular.

A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

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