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Six Must Read Sources from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Most people today have little to no familiarity with any of the principles that influenced the founders. Below, you’ll find six important resources hand-picked by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. You can also find links to each in this podcast episode – “The Founders’ Education.”

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Notable Quote – Short and Sweet about our Founders and a Chair

I have always liked this one – Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson: “There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair”

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Some Thoughts on the Myth of School Neutrality

I just read my personal copy of the “Saving Our Children” issue of The New American. The magazine is published by The John Birch Society and this was a special edition devoted to k-12 education and the many issues that prevail in the schools.

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Notable Quotes – A Repartee Response-a-Thon

I came across a post with a number of quick-witted repartees (‘ll reveal it later so as not to spoil it). I like these so I’ll be putting them up over the next few days.

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Notable Quote – Another Buttress for the Great Mind Fallacy

The vast disparity in knowledge and understanding between intellectuals and the population at large assumed by the intelligentsia is crucial to the vision of the anointed, whether in discussions of law, economics, race, war or innumerable other issues. But, if the knowledge that is consequential includes a range of mundane information too vast to be …

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