All THOMAS JEFFERSON Quotes about “Morality”

“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.”
“When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.”
“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.”
“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.”
“Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.”
“He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this.”
“Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.”
“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.”
“The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...”

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