Richard Bland Quotes
All men are born free.
Richard Bland, 1710-1776, Member of Continental Congress, Quoted in Ralph Ketcham, From Colony to Country: The Revolution in American Thought 1750-1820, Macmillan, 1974
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This wording was used a few years later by the French in their Revolution,
Those who support the right of the individual woman to use contraception or have an abortion cite this quotation to illustrate this early statement of the right of a person to have control over his or her own body.
Most politicians and philosophers would argue that liberty is both an individual right and a group right. However there are money who do not recognize group rights and feel that they are inimical to individual rights.
Jefferson had deliberately modified John Locke’s phrase “life, liberty and property.
Richard Bland, sometimes referred to as Richard Bland II or Richard Bland of Jordan's Point, was an American planter and statesman from Virginia and a cousin of Thomas Jefferson. He served for many terms in the House of Burgesses, and was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775.
