♦ nivek ♦ Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 "The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. ... Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potatoe as an article of food."-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President Source: Jefferson's Notes on Viriginia, Query XVII (1781-1785) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.F3B9 "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." -- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Author http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.C0D2 "No one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one. ... Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of. ... And if he does know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate." -- C. P. Snow Source: the book, The Light and the Dark http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/C..P..Snow.Quote.04E0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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