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" Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. "
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787 - Page 466
by Thomas Jefferson - 1894
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The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including All of His Important ...

Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 pages
...content to be ignorant of any of these branches. (To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1786.) EDUCATION. — Above all things I hope the education of the common...security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. (To James Madison, 1787. F. IV., 480.) EDUCATION. — In truth if anything could ever induce me to...
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The University of Texas Record, Volume 2

1900 - 496 pages
...over the sure signs of success. It was the sage of Monticello who wrote in a letter to James Madison, "Above all things, I hope the education of the common...for the preservation of a due degree of liberty." Believing as firmly as did Jefferson in the splendid virtues of the common people, the forefathers...
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The Life and Writings of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...content to be ignorant of any of these branches. (To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1786.) EDUCATION. — Above all things I hope the education of the common...security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. (To James Madison, 1787. F. IV., 480.) EDUCATION. — In truth if anything could ever induce me to...
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The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1504 pages
...— To JOSEPH C. CABELL. vii, 188. FORD ED., x, 167. (PP, 1820.) 2409. EDUCATION, The People and.— Above all things. I hope the education of the common...will be attended to; convinced that on their good senses we may rely with the most security for the oreservation of a due degree of liberty.* — To...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4

Thomas Jefferson - 1903
...promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man." And again, writing to James Madison, he said: "Above all things I hope the education of the common...for the preservation of a due degree of liberty." The great general principle, the mighty underlying, foundation truth, is that in the general elementary...
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Bulletin of the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the ..., Volume 11, Part 1

United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1905 - 854 pages
...get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they as in Europe. will become corrupt . above all things I hope the education of the common...good sense we may rely with the most security for the ["liberties" stricken out] preservation of a due degree of liberty. PS the instability of our laws...
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Proceedings of the ... Conference for Education ..., Volume 7, Parts 1904-1905

1904 - 378 pages
...people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us from the evils of misgovernment. "Above all things, I hope the education of the common...for the preservation of a due degree of liberty." And in discussing his famous bill for the education of all the people of Virginia, he said: "The expense...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 18

Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 550 pages
...oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." To Madison he wrote, "Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to. * * * Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is to their interest...
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Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States of America ...

United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1905 - 846 pages
...get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they as in Europe. will become corrupt . above all things I hope the education of the common...good sense we may rely with the most security for the ["liberties" stricken out] preservation of a due degree of liberty. PS the instability of our laws...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volumes 3-4

Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1038 pages
...promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man." And again, writing to James Madison, he said: "Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that 011 their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty."...
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