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

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest...

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest...

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...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and...

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and...

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned,...

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned,...

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...

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt...

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt...

I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its...

I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its...

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is...

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is...

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain...

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain...

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of...

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of...

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable...

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable...

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant....

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant....

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing...

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing...

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is...

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is...

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of...

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of...