I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
Thomas JeffersonThere is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
Thomas JeffersonI had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.
Thomas JeffersonFemale education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.
Thomas Jefferson