Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
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Thomas Jefferson
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About Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. A prolific writer and philosopher, Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. His political philosophy formed the basis for Jeffersonian democracy, which dominated early American politics alongside federalism. Jefferson remains celebrated as an icon of American political values, but is also controversial for being a lifelong slave owner.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Thomas JeffersonI know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the rem…
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Game…
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.