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James Monroe:"I take a deep interest, as a parent and a citizen, in the success of female education, and have been delighted whenever I have been, to witness the attention paid to it."source: Commenting on Harvard University in "A Narrative of a Tour of Observation" 1818.feminism, education for women, knowledge

Noah Webster:"But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information of the people. In no country, is education so general--in no country, have the body of the people such a knowledge of the rights of men and the principles of government. This knowledge, joined with a keep sense of liberty and a watchful jealousy, will guard our constitutions, and awaken the people to an instantaneous resistance of encroachments. "source: "an Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution" October 17, 1787.education, knowledge, power, freedom, rights, balance of power, watchdogs

Noah Webster:"It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country."source: On the Education of Youth in America, 1788.education, knowledge, virtue, liberty, liberal, attachement to country

Gouverneur Morris:"Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man toward God."source: The Life of Governeur Morris", Jared Sparks, (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1832), Vol. III, p. 483, from his "Notes on the Form of a Constitution for France" Religion, Morals, education

Thomas Jefferson:"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education & free discussion are the antidotes of both."source: To John Adams, August 1, 1816.education, bigotry, ignorance, freedom of speech

Michel Jean De Crevecoeur:"The easiest way of becoming acquainted with the modes of thinking, the rules of conduct, and the prevailing manners of any people, is to examine what sort of education they give their children; how they treat them at home, and what they are taught in their places of public worship."source: Letters From an American Farmer, 1782.parenting, education, respect, home-life, worship habits

Nathanael Greene:"The infant mind is pregnant with a variety of passions; But I apprehend it is in the power of those who are entrusted with the education of youth in a considerable degree to determine the bent of the noble passions and to fix them on salutary objects, or let them loose to such as are pernicious or destructive. Here then lies the foundation of civil liberty; in forming the habits of the youthful mind, in forwarding every passion that may tend to the promotion of the happiness of the community, in fixing in ourselves right ideas of benevolence, humanity, integrity and truth."source: To Samuel Ward Jr., 1771.education, children, humanity, benevolence, integrity, truth, liberty, educators

John Jay:"I consider knowledge to be the soul of a republic, and as the weak and the wicked are generally in alliance, as much care should be taken to diminish the number of the former as of the latter. Education is the way to do this, and nothing should be left undone to afford all ranks of people the means of obtaining a proper degree of it at a cheap and easy rate."source: To Benjamin Rush, March 21, 1785.knowledge, education

Benjamin Rush:"It is favourable to liberty. Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights, and where learning is confined to a few people, liberty can be neither equal nor universal."source: Essay, 1786.liberty, freedom, society, rights, learning, education, knowledge

James Madison:"The principles and modes of government are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind and I think are well worthy a critical examination by all students that have health and leisure."source: To William Bradford, December 1, 1773.government, education, the importance of asking questions, students, learning

Thomas Jefferson:"The article of discipline is the most difficult in American education. Premature ideas of independence, too little repressed by parents, beget a spirit of insubordinate, which is the great obstacle."source: To Dr. Thomas Cooper, November 2, 1822.discipline, education, parenting, obedience

Thomas Jefferson:"Nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county."source: To John Wyche, 1809.books, education, library, communities

Thomas Jefferson:"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree."source: Ibid. 2:207liberty, trust, government, education

Thomas Jefferson:"To inform the minds of the people and to follow their will is the chief duty of those placed at their head."source: Ibid., 6:342education, leaders

Thomas Jefferson:"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitution power."source: Bergh, 15:278saftey, education, people government, abuse of powers

James Madison:"Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks, no form of government, can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men; so that we do not depend upon their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them."source: Quotes in Jonathan Elliot, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, 5 vols. [Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901], 3:536-37virtue, morality, depravity, corruption, necessity for a virtuous nation, election of leaders, education, dependency

John Adams:"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people."source: Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Laweducation, libery, ignorance, importance

John Adams:"The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country."source: Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765education for all, liberty, value of education

Thomas Jefferson:"Health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes the mind strong."source: To Peter Carr, August 19, 1785priority of health, education and learning

John Adams:"The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts, I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. "source: Letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780.education, importance of study, sacrifice, posterity

Noah Webster:"[O]ur citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament, or the Christian religion."source: History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1832), p. 6.Republic, Christianity, Bible, education, Separation of Church and State

Thomas Jefferson:"No religious reading, instruction, or exercise shall be prescribed or practiced inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination."source: J. Randolph, ed., Early History of the University of Virginia [1856], pp. 96-77.teaching of religion, church, religious instruction, values, principles, education

James Madison:"It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."source: Second annual message to congress, December 5, 1810.freedom, rights, education, knowledge, wisdom, liberty, importance of proper education

John Adams:"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom."source: Defense of the Constitutions, 1787.children, education, knowledge, teaching, freedom, liberty, what it means to be american

Noah Webster:"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country."source: On the Education of Youth in America, 1788.education, youth, knowledge of America's beginnings, reading, books

James Monroe:"An institution which endeavors to rear American youth in pure love of truth and duty, and while it enlightens their minds by ingenious and liberal studies, endeavors to awaken a love of country, to soften local prejudices, and to inoculate Christian faith and charity, cannot but acquire, as it deserves, the confidence of the wise and good. "source: Commenting on Harvard University in "A Narrative of a Tour of Observation," 1818.institutions of higher learning, education, youth, love of country, truth, prejudice, faith, charity

Thomas Paine:"A too great inattention to past occurrences retards and bewilders our judgment in every thing; while, on the contrary, by comparing what is past with what is present, we frequently hit on the true character of both, and become wise with very little trouble. It is a kind of countermarch, by which we get into the rear of time, and mark the movements and meanings of things as we make our return."source: The Crisis, 1777.history, education, wisdom, awareness

Washington Irving:"History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?"source: The Sketch Book, 1820.history, education, ancient civilizations

Thomas Jefferson:"Knowledge is power .. knowledge is safety ... knowledge is happiness."source: Letter to George Ticknor, November 25, 1817.intelligence, wisdom, happiness, education

Thomas Jefferson:"Style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, & impressions are permanent."source: To John Bannister, Jr., October 15, 1785.speech, language, culture, rearing a child, education, manners, imagination, learning

Benjamin Franklin:"God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country."source: Letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789.liberty, knowledge, constitution, bill of rights, education

Thomas Jefferson:"For promoting the public happiness, those persons whom nature has endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens; and they should be called to that charge without regard to [...] birth, or other accidental condition or circumstance."source: Ibid., 2:221.responsibility of citizery, duty, uphold liberties, prejudice

George Washington:"It having pleased the Almighty Ruler of the universe propitiously to defend the cause of the United American States...by raising up a powerful Friend among the Princes of the Earth to establish our liberty and Independence upon lasting foundations, it becomes us to set apart a day for gratefully acknowledging the divine Goodness, and celebrating the important Event which we owe to his benign interposition. (William H Wibur, The Making of George Washington, Patriot Education Inc. 1973, p.198.)"source: After the treaty of alliance had been signed with Paris, on February 5, 1778, Wahington wrote to his troops a reminder of the part heaven was playing in this war: Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, George Washington, Revolutionary War, Victory in War, Washington's Letters, Patiot graditude

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