...dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction of man and improvement of his condition, seems to have been...

...the next, as epic transmitted ideas, values, and models, was a prime article of Jefferson's faith. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights a taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another...