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SCI LIBRARY

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