Political Understanding for the 21st century. When old clashes with new, which one makes more sense?

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Based On Historical Perspectives
By; Chuck Thompson of TTC Media
http://www.GloucesterCounty-VA.com
John Adams
All men are born free and independent, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights,
among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that
acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and
happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Of liberty then I say that, in the whole plentitude of it's extent, it is unobstructed action according to our
will, but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by
the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the
tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of an individual.
John Adams
I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government – RIGHTS that
cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws – RIGHTS derived from the great Legislator of the
universe.
Thomas Jefferson
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to
prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which
equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one
heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which
liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land
that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if
we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody
persecutions