I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.


Early History of the University of Virginia (ed. 1856)

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, ...

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, ...

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, ...

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, ...