 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 414 pages
...these * " Memoirs and Writings of Jefferson," edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, vol. ii., p. 43. descriptions of men are an abandoned confederacy against...up among us if we leave the people in ignorance." Jefferson believed that strong-minded, well informed, and moral men were needed in a republic. He believed,... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 414 pages
...loaded with misery, by kings, nobles, and /'priests, and by them alone. Preach, my Dear-Sitvaxrusade against ignorance ; establish and improve the law...up among us if we leave the people in ignorance." Jefferson believed that strong-minded, well informed, and moral men were needed in a republic. He believed,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 pages
...To JOHN ADAMS, vi, 37. FORD ED., ix, 334. (M., 1812.) 3828. IGNORANCE, Misgovernment and. — Preach a crusade against ignorance. Establish and improve...up among us, if we leave the people in ignorance. —To GEORGE WYTHE. ii, 8. FORD ED., iv, 269. (P., 1786.) — ILLINOIA, Proposed State.— See WESTERN... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against those evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this...rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. (Written from Paris to George Wythe, 1786. F. IV., 268.) EDUCATION. — The foundations you have laid... | |
 | Henry Childs Merwin - 1901 - 186 pages
...on earth enjoy ! I confess I had no idea of it myself." To George Wythe he wrote in August, 1786 : " Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance;...up among us if we leave the people in ignorance." To Madison, he wrote in January, 1787 : " This is a goverment of wolves over sheep." Jefferson took... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 556 pages
...against ignorance. Establish and improve the law for educating the common people. * * * The tax which is paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth...up among us, if we leave the people in ignorance." These three achievements made straight the path for the service he rendered to the free press in America.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 536 pages
...paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests & nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people...here. But it needs but half an eye to see, when among them.that the foundation is laid in their dispositions for the establishment of a despotism. Nobility,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 550 pages
...against ignorance. Establish and improve the law for educating the common people. * * * The tax which is paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth...up among us, if we leave the people in ignorance." These three achievements made straight the path for the service he rendered to the free press in America.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...which the human form is susceptible; where such a people, I say, surrounded by so many blessings of nature, are loaded with misery, by kings, nobles and...rise up among us if we leave the People in ignorance. I HAVE proposed to you, to carry on the study of law with that of politics and history. Every political... | |
 | John Sharp Williams - 1913 - 358 pages
...INFLUENCE ON OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS / To George Wythe Mr. Jefferson wrote, in August, '1786: — "Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance;...up among us, if we leave the people in ignorance." kl quote this because it is a keynote expression of the Jeffersonian doctrine that democracy_and education... | |
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Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance. Establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is... 
