Three Lessons in American Studies that America's Politicians Failed to Learn

Thomas Jefferson wrote:

"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property."

"Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with the understanding sufficient for their stations."

"Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct."

How many of America's problems might have been avoided had the writings of Jefferson been made a required course of study in our educational system? (4/23/2006)

2006, John Kozy

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