The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
By Subject
GOVERNMENT / JUST PRINCIPLES
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be
administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of
society... Liberty, truth, probity, honor, are declared to be the four
cardinal principles of society. I believe... that morality,
compassion, generosity, are innate elements of the human constitution;
that there exists a right independent of force.
to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816
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