Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Teachers

• One man with courage is a majority.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Success, Courage

• Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thank You, Education, Teacher

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

• Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Teacher, Teaching

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara Oberg (1950). “The papers of Thomas Jefferson”

• To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . . . even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern. . . .

  Thomas Jefferson

  Teacher, Religious, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.390, Cambridge University Press

• I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Teacher, Jesus, Believe

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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