"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." | 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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