Jefferson’s Blog
Some election issues are timeless.
Thomas Jefferson writes on the issues of his day, and ours.
August 2, 2012
Is youth itself a government reform?
“I have printed and reserved just copies enough [of Notes on the State of Virginia] to be able to give one to every young man at the College. It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations.”
–Jefferson to the Marquis de Chastellux, June 7, 1785
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Anthony Riccio says:
Jefferson saw the human mind as ever evolving, growing and capable of achieving greatness. He felt every man should be given the freedom to reach his potential. Each generation would add to this knowledge and improve upon the past.Each generation would define itself and leave its legacy. This legacy was not to be permanent but improved upon by future generations. To the point that each generation may write its own Constitution. To Jefferson age brought with it a sunset beyond which the future was left to new young ideas.