Thomas Jefferson Quotes about Virtue

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Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Virtue

Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Thomas Jefferson

Long, Abuse, Virtue

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

Practice, Principles, Virtue

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

Thomas Jefferson

Ideas, Virtue, Crime

Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.142, Hackett Publishing