Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 490 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
| QUOTATION: | Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | This sentence is one of many quotations inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor, U.S. Capitol. |
| SUBJECTS: | Education |