The Divine Source of Freedom

Posted on December 3, 2005
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The Federalist Patriot — Founders’ Quote Daily

“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” – Thomas Jefferson (Rights of British America, 1774)

Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., 1:209.

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