I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Ethics Quotes

Delay is preferable to error.

Delay is preferable to error.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper...

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper...

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with...

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with...

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy...

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy...

The merchant has no country

The merchant has no country

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my...

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my...

This is the fourth?

This is the fourth?

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

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

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long...

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long...

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit...

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit...

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of...

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of...

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in...

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in...

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be...

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be...

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they...

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they...

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be...

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be...

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it...

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it...