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No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it’s effect towards supporting free and good government (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
This interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Drawing... is an innocent and engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother and an instructor (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,... to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it’s consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, andc (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)