Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1064
AUTHOR:
Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
QUOTATION:
It behoves 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.
ATTRIBUTION:
President THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803.The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 8, p. 224, footnote 1 (1897).