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Your search for "
the arts
" returned 4 results from 4 Founders.
Thomas Jefferson:
"You see I am an enthusiast on
the
subject of
the
arts
. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve
the
taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them
the
respect of
the
world & procure them its praise."
source: To James Madison, September 20, 1785.
the arts
,
furtherment of society
,
prosperity
,
culture
Alexander Hamilton:
"The republican principle demands that
the
deliberate sense of
the
community should govern
the
conduct of those to whom they intrust
the
management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion, or to every transient impulse which
the
people may receive from
the
arts
of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests. It is a just observation, that
the
people commonly INTEND
the
PUBLIC GOOD. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise
the
adulator who should pretend that they always REASON RIGHT about
the
MEANS of promoting it."
source: The Federalist Papers: No. 17
good intentions
,
whims
Thomas Paine:
"Every principal art has some science for its parent, though
the
person who mechanically performs
the
work does not always, and but very seldom, perceive
the
connection."
source: Age of Reason, I, 1794.
the arts
,
creativity
,
sciences
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
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