There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.


Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States (ed. 1829)

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties...

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties...

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties...

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties...