Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jeffersonwas an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He was elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams and in 1800 was elected the third President. Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, which motivated American colonists to break from Great Britain and form a new nation. He produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth13 April 1743
CityShadwell, VA
CountryUnited States of America
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
Health is the requisite after morality
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.
Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government