"I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another."

Environment, Earth, Generations, Freedom, Law

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"I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another."

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Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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Explore more quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

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"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God."

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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

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"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."

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"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character."

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"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."

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"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

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