Notes

THE FOUNDING FATHERS’ MESSAGE FOR STUDENTS student—a learner; scholar



Thomas Jefferson James Madison John Adams Benjamin Franklin“Knowledge is power. Knowledge is safety. Knowledge is happiness.”—Thomas Jefferson
“Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”—George Washington
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”—Thomas Jefferson
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.”-Thomas Jefferson
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”—James Madison
“Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”—John Adams
“The boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.”—Thomas Jefferson
“Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”—Thomas Jefferson
“I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion.”—Thomas Jefferson
“Education engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.”—Thomas Jefferson
“The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate... the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those acts which history exhibits....”—Thomas Jefferson
“The idea of what is true merit should also be often presented to youth, explained and impressed on their minds, as consisting in an inclination joined with an ability to serve mankind, one’s country, friends and family; which ability is (with the blessing of God) to be acquired or greatly increased by true learning; and should indeed be the great aim and end of all learning.”—Benjamin Franklin
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”—Thomas Jefferson
THE FOUNDING FATHERS’ MESSAGE FOR STUDENTS student—a learner; scholar
Thomas Jefferson James Madison John Adams Benjamin Franklin“Knowledge is power. Knowledge is safety. Knowledge is happiness.”—Thomas Jefferson