“A government is like everything else: to preserve it, we must love it.”
When he was young, Thomas Jefferson carefully copied those words — a quote from the great political philosopher Montesquieu — into his “commonplace book,” the private journal he kept as a student for future inspiration.
“Everything, therefore, depends on establishing this love in a republic,” the passage continued. “And to inspire it ought to be the principal business of education.”
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“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of the day.” Thomas Jefferson
ReplyDeleteAnd we're letting them.
ReplyDeleteThis is sad but very true.
ReplyDeleteA lot can be taught around the dinner table. Teach your kids to love America and why. It’s a parents responsibility. Dinner discussions.
ReplyDeleteA lot can be taught around the dinner table. Teach your kids to love America and why. It’s a parents responsibility. Dinner discussions.
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