Wasn't the preamble pretty much plagiarized from Locke's ‘Second Treatise’ particularly Chapter Two. Much of Jefferson's theory seems to come from Locke. So, what makes Locke anymore insightful or right than Hobbes? At bottom my belief is men use elevated rhetoric to mask their real motivations just as persons routinely mask statements as questions. Therefore making a big to do about any set of rhetorical pronouncements is very dubious as it invest transcendence in something that was done for a contingent and transitory purpose.
Truth is timeless, and it remains true no matter who uses, or misuses, it.
Even Satan himself spoke the scriptures to Jesus when he tempted Him. Out of context, of course.
The Lord’s overwhelmingly effective response, of course, was eternal truth, in context.
To which there was no possible response, so Satan fled, as he always must in the face of properly deployed truth.