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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."


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Thomas Jefferson (more quotes by Thomas Jefferson or books by/about 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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Freedom, Society, Health, Liberty, President, Collectivist

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