Famous Quotes

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

Thomas Jefferson on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Thomas Jefferson

• "In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."

• "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."

• "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

• "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more."

• "When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."