Thomas Jefferson Society Quotations

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.