Congratulations, you are a real American. You chose democracy. The historical figure that you agreed with was Thomas Jefferson.
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"The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."
"The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. If, for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation"
"The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to Roger C. Weightman (Jun 24, 1826)
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe their minds must be improved to a certain degree."
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe their minds must be improved to a certain degree."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from Notes on Virginia Query XIV
"The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. If, for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation"
-- Thomas Jefferson, from letter to James Madison (Oct 28, 1785)
"We of the United States, you know, are constitutionally and conscientiously democrats. We consider society as one of the natural wants with which man has been created; that he has been endowed with faculties and qualities to effect its satisfaction by concurrence of others having the same want"
-- Thomas Jefferson; letter to P. S. Dupont de Nemours (April 24, 1816)
"The first stage of this education being.. wherein... the principal foundations of future order will be laid... Instead, therefore, of putting the Bible and Testament into the hands of the children at an age when their judgments are not sufficiently matured for religious inquiries, their memories may here be stored with the most useful facts"
-- Thomas Jefferson; from 'Notes on Virginia' Query XIV
"every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, & mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the US. and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to Rev. Samuel Miller (Jan 23, 1808)
"We of the United States, you know, are constitutionally and conscientiously democrats. We consider society as one of the natural wants with which man has been created; that he has been endowed with faculties and qualities to effect its satisfaction by concurrence of others having the same want"
-- Thomas Jefferson; letter to P. S. Dupont de Nemours (April 24, 1816)
"The first stage of this education being.. wherein... the principal foundations of future order will be laid... Instead, therefore, of putting the Bible and Testament into the hands of the children at an age when their judgments are not sufficiently matured for religious inquiries, their memories may here be stored with the most useful facts"
-- Thomas Jefferson; from 'Notes on Virginia' Query XIV
"every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, & mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the US. and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to Rev. Samuel Miller (Jan 23, 1808)
“are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy… is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not”
-- Thomas Jefferson; from letter to N. G. Dufief (Apr 19, 1814)
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