Thomas Jefferson Quotes about Morality

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Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Thomas Jefferson

Law, Principles, Morality

Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.199

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Thomas Jefferson

4th Of July, Resistance, Morality

Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.133

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

Thomas Jefferson

Principles, Morality, Nations

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Thomas Jefferson

Giving Up, Earth, Morality

Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.297, Penguin

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Rights, Morality

Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.459, Penguin

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Thomas Jefferson

Self, Morality, Interest

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.349

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.

Thomas Jefferson

Integrity, Men, Morality

Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.239, Algora Publishing

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

Thomas Jefferson

Honesty, Morality, Interest

Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.541, Princeton University Press

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.

Thomas Jefferson

Intelligence, Ethics, Morality

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.238

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

Thomas Jefferson

Politics, Morality, Individual

Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

Health is the requisite after morality

Thomas Jefferson

Health, Morality