QuoteQuest“It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Letter to George Washington (4 January 1786)
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Jefferson, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
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