6643. PERSONAL LIBERTY, Preservation of.—
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for
ourselves. It were contrary to feeling, and
indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had
less rights in himself than one of his neighbors,
or indeed all of them put together. This would
be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill
of rights has made inviolable, and for the
preservation of which our government has
been charged.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. i, 319.
Ford ed., iii, 58.
(M.
1782)
