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.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for. It issued finally in that inestimable state of freedom which alone can ensure to man the enjoyment of his equal rights.
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.
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