Jefferson's point was anti-intellectual, but not anti-learning; quite the contrary: "The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm....It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body."
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"This sense is submitted indeed in some degree to the guidance of reason; but it is a small stock which is required for this: even a less one than what we call Common sense."
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Philosophers and ploughmen Each must know his part
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Reiterated nicely by WFB when he said that he'd rather be governed by the first hundred named people in the Boston phone book than by 100 of Harvard's top professors.
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