JeffersonLegacy.org
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The Jefferson Legacy Foundation - a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.
Description
The Jefferson Legacy Foundation of Ripton, Vermont is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to celebrating, applying, and raising awareness of Thomas Jefferson's living legacy in a modern world. Jefferson's legacy includes models for civic responsibility; active participation in society; revitalization of democracy; lifelong learning; service to others; and the pursuit of happiness. Our programs, publications, projects, and partnerships — designed to help us understand what the founders had in mind for our country-serve K-12, college, and graduate students as well as life — long learners; educators; scholars and historians; government organizations; civic organizations; and historical societies and their members.
What can people learn from Thomas Jefferson? Historian and Jefferson biographer Dumas Malone says it best: “We can learn from him ... that once an apostle of liberty lived a notably elevated life, an extraordinarily rich, perennially interesting, endlessly generous, and ceaselessly useful life, in a society which he himself had made more democratic … His faith is the most admirable thing about him and his most enduring legacy — his faith in human beings and in the human mind. To all those who cherish freedom and abhor tyranny in any form he is an abiding symbol of the hope that springs eternal.”
The Jefferson Legacy Foundation invites you to join our efforts in advancing the principles of Thomas Jefferson, with an emphasis on self-government, spiritual and intellectual freedom, and education as a mean for achieving personal fulfillment and service to society. Please contact us for more information on membership, our ongoing activities, or any other aspect of the JLF. In the spirit of enlightened civil discourse, we welcome your ideas, comments, and suggestions.
