Politics The author of the Declaration of Independence may have written "the greatest sentence ever." | (Illustration: Joanna Andreasson, ChatGPT-5.4; Source images: Wikimedia) This is part of 1776 All-Stars, a series about Reason's favorite American Founders. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1819.