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Quote DB :: Authors :: Thomas Jefferson :: View Quote View Quote "I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Thomas Jefferson Listed in: Morality Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 5  Rate Quote 8 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Thomas Jefferson "I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one." "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." "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 blind-folded fear." Top 5 quotes from Morality "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." "If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble." "Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience." "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." "I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."

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