Thomas Jefferson Quote

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.... We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.


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


Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.... We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him...

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.... We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him...

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.... We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him...

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.... We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him...