Moral Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

— Thomas Jefferson

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

— Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

— Thomas Jefferson

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

— Thomas Jefferson

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

— Thomas Jefferson

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our…

— Thomas Jefferson

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or…

— Thomas Jefferson

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as…

— Thomas Jefferson

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which…

— Thomas Jefferson

Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their…

— Thomas Jefferson

God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society,…

— Thomas Jefferson

MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as…

— Thomas Jefferson

Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane,…

— Thomas Jefferson

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have…

— Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all…

— Thomas Jefferson

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which…

— Thomas Jefferson

To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the…

— Thomas Jefferson

This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which…

— Thomas Jefferson

I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the…

— Thomas Jefferson

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

— Thomas Jefferson

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

— Thomas Jefferson

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all…

— Thomas Jefferson

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach…

— Thomas Jefferson

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written…

— Thomas Jefferson

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which…

— Thomas Jefferson

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our…

— Thomas Jefferson

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that…

— Thomas Jefferson