Date: 1787
"They [the Indians] will crayon out an animal, a plant, or a country, so as to prove the existence of a germ in their minds which only wants cultivation."
preview | full record— Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Date: 1787
"This will in some measure stop the increase of this great political and moral evil, while the minds of our citizens may be ripening for a complete emancipation of human nature."
preview | full record— Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Date: February 1792
"Whatever wisdom constituently is, it is like a seedless plant; it may be reared when it appears, but it cannot be voluntarily produced."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1793
"It is of great importance that this idea should be extirpated."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)