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" Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. "
The Atlantic Monthly - Page 395
1872
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Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With ...

B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 pages
...priests, and by them alone Preach, mV dear Si?, a crusade against ignorance : establish and improve he law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen...people alone can protect us against these evils, and thatlhe uVx whS/wiU be paid for this pur^e, is not more than he thousandth part of what will be paid...
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Survey of the State of Education, Aristocratic and Popular, and of the ...

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1833 - 44 pages
...people. JVb other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness. Make a crusade against ignorance, establish and improve...the people alone can protect us against these evils" of aristocratical Europe. — "And withour going into the monitory history of the ancient world, in...
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Lives of the Presidents of the United States: With Biographical Notices of ...

Robert W. Lincoln - 1836 - 530 pages
...many blessings from nature, are loaded with misery by kings, nobles, and priests, and by them alone. Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the Jaw for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know, that the people alone can protect us...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States ..., Volume 1

George Tucker - 1837 - 636 pages
...freedom and happiness." After some common-place denunciations of kings, nobles and priests, he adds : " Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance ;...these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for . J this purpose, is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles,...
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Prospectus, Issues 1-2

American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - 1837 - 118 pages
...people. JVb other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation oj' freedom and happiness. Make a crusade against ignorance ; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. And without going into the monitory history of the ancient world, in all its quarters, and at all its...
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America: Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive, Volume 2

James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 538 pages
...people. No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness. Make a crusade against ignorance ; establish and improve the law for educating the common people." James Madison, the fourth president, in his message to Congress dated December 5, 1810, uses this language...
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The Ohio School Journal, Volumes 1-4

1846 - 774 pages
...of duty- Economy, policy, safety, honor, all concur in pressing the admonition of Jefferson, "make a crusade against ignorance, establish and improve the law for educating the people." Better to shutout the light from their eyes, the air from their lungs, or seal the fountains...
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Documents, Messages and Other Communications, Made to the ..., Volume 10, Part 1

Ohio. General Assembly - 1846 - 950 pages
...of duty. Economy, policy, safety, honor, all concur in pressing the admonition of Jefferson, " make a crusade against ignorance, establish and improve the law for educating the people." Better to shut out the light from their eyes, <he air from their lungs, or seal the fountains...
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Journal, Volume 1

Rhode Island Institute of Instruction - 1846 - 512 pages
...of duty. Economy, policy, safety, honor, all concur in pressing the admonition of Jefferson, " make a crusade against ignorance, establish and improve the law for educating the people." Better to shut out the light from their eyes, the air from their lungs, or seal the fountamsof...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1

Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 698 pages
...and by them jlont. Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance ; establish and improve tbf bw for educating the common people. Let our countrymen...these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for tha 1 The plan entire will be found in the Congress edition of his Works, vol. ix. p. StT. CHAP. XI.]...
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