Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.
Thomas JeffersonHe who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
Thomas JeffersonThe fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
Thomas JeffersonThe right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
Thomas Jefferson