All THOMAS JEFFERSON Quotes about “Honesty”

“Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.”
“I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.”
“What is it men cannot be made to believe!”
“[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.”
“Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.”
“I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.”
“Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.”

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