False Quote from Thomas Jefferson 

"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."

Quote by:
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source:
Misattributed to Jefferson. The quote is from Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism: On the Idea of a Patriot King, and on the State of Parties at the Accession of King George the First (London: A. Millar, 1752), 120.
 
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