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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.
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Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1977). The Portable Thomas Jefferson, p.297, Penguin
It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). The Writings of Thomas Jef … ▶
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Political Writings, p.397, Cambridge University Press
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expe … ▶
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

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