Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be att…

Thomas Jefferson
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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 most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield
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