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Thomas Jefferson Quotes about Authority

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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

All authority belongs to the people.

Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional