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. 17good 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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