Thomas Jefferson:The licentious press

05/04/2012

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"During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety."

--Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural Address, 1805


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Thomas Jefferson: "A favored few booted and spurred"

05/03/2012

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"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride legitimately, by the grace of God."

-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Roger C. Weightman, 1826


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Lyman Beecher: No advance without controversy

04/27/2012

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"No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy."

-- Lyman Beecher

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