Don't submit. Resist. The people of this country will never suffer themselves to be made slaves of by a submission to the damned act.” -John Hancock In October 1765, just two weeks before the Stamp Act was set to go into effect, Hancock sent a letter to his London agent,...See more

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Thomas Jefferson on the "law" - his observations are more on point every single day. "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, 4 April 1819

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Thomas Jefferson on the "law" - his observations are more on point every single day. "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, 4 April 1819