by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Debt, Founders, George Washington, President, Quotes
“Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic.” George...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Debt, Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes
“I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other”, James Madison
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“The qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training.” Thomas Jefferson letter to Edward Everett, 1824 March 27.
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, 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 controul with a wholsome discretion, the remedy is, not to take it from them, but to inform their...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.” Thomas...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Now let us see what the present primary schools cost us, on the supposition that all the children of 10. 11. & 12. years old are, as they ought to be, at school: and, if they are not, so much the work is the system; for they will be untaught, and their...
