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4688. LIBERTY, Life and.—

The God
who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same
time: the hand of force may destroy, but it
cannot disjoin them. [302]
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 142. Ford ed., i, 447.
(1774)

 
[302]

“Ab eo libertas, a quo spiritus,” was the motto
on one of Jefferson's seals.—Editor.