Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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

#Ethics

I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be...

#Ethics

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good...

#Example

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

#Excellence

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their...

#Food

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise...

#Freedom, #Law And Lawyers Fanaticism, #Religion

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

#Force

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

#Flattery

Every generation needs a new revolution.

#Generations, #Revolution

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A...

#Age, #Generations

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on...

#Government

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

#Government, #Liberty