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Moral Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of…
- Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
- State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he…
- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,…
- Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but…
- The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence…
- Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of…
- The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
- Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
- Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.
- With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
- The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
- I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has…
- We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable…
- You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain…
- The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their…
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
More Moral Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac