Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Obligations II

"We feel that we are acting under obligations not confined to the limits of our own society. It is impossible not to be sensible that we are acting for all mankind; that circumstances denied to others but indulged to us have imposed on us the duty of proving what is the degree of freedom and self-government in which a society may venture to leave its individual members."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Priestley, 1802.

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