The Jeffersonian cyclopedia; a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, art, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.; |
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9055. WEALTH, Public office and.—
For promoting the public happiness those persons,
whom nature has endowed with genius
and virtue, should be rendered by liberal
education worthy to receive, and able to guard
the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties
of their fellow citizens; and they should be
called to that charge without regard to wealth
* * * or other accidental condition or circumstance.—
Diffusion of Knowledge Bill.
Ford ed., ii, 221.
(1779)
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