Quotes Tagged With :jefferson

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

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other....

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

Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.

Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly....

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

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale,....

Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution....

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are....

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries....