"To instruct the mass of our citizens in……" — Thomas Jefferson
"To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson has 1,437 quotes on this site.
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
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You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you…
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple…
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not…
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay,…
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