I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is…

Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). The Essential Jefferson, p.88, Courier Corporation
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