"Is it less dishonest to do what is……" — Thomas Jefferson
"Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions,…
— James Madison
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The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture,…
— George William Curtis
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Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.
— Edward Abbey
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In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate,…
— Martin Luther
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Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here…
— Sterling W Sill
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will,…
— Aleister Crowley
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"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of…
— Joseph Addison
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Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination,…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
— Boethius
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