Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignora...
In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstruc...
Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.