Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Daughters

• Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Firsts, Born

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

• Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Writing, Caring

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

• Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Mother, Educational

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.247, Hackett Publishing

• A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Kings, Honesty

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

• No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Men, Land

• I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Country, Soul

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.429

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