Quotes Tagged With :jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and....

Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled....

Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public,....

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty....

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We....

In 1778, Jefferson presented to the Virginia legislature "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge,"....

...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration....

Thomas Jefferson. . . knew what schools were for--to ensure that citizens would know when and how to....

Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton....