Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
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Thomas Jefferson
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A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Reprinted from the Original Ed.,
Adams-Jefferson Letters
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
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Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States of America, Bill of Rights and Constitutional Amendments (Including Images of Original
Democracy in America
Jefferson: Public and Private Papers
Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph
Notes on the State of Virginia
The Declaration of Independence
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 9: 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 11: January 1787 to August 1787
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 16: November 1789 to July 1790
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
The Quotable Jefferson
The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom
U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
Works of Thomas Jefferson. Including The Jefferson Bible, Autobiography and The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Illustrated), with Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary ... more.
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
We never repent of having eaten too little.
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.