"The moral sense is the first excellence..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.
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“That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.”
“The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.”
“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
More on Morality
“What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?”
“Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.”
“The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.”