| American Institute of Instruction - 1873 - 212 pages
...government, and has been fully recognized by the statesmen of our own republic. Jefferson has said " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Webster is even more emphatic when he says, " I have no conception of any means in which the popular... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1873 - 212 pages
...government, and has been fully recognized by the statesmen of our own republic. Jefferson has said " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Webster is even more emphatic when he says, " I have no conception of any means in which the popular... | |
| John Cleaves Henderson - 1877 - 154 pages
...like other insanities, are incapable of self-government." In a letter to another friend he wrote, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Not to quote longer from Thomas Jefferson's correspondence, it is inter1 Jefferson and Wytho made a... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1877 - 508 pages
...might be taught in its highest degree every branch of science useful in our time aud country. * * * If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was aud never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty... | |
| 1925 - 700 pages
...Farewell Address, "it is essential that public opinion be enlightened." So, also, Jefferson declared, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Of course the object of society is always its qwn well-being, but its conception of what really constitutes... | |
| 1883 - 684 pages
...the latest, of all the concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest." — JEFFERSON. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property... | |
| Peabody education fund - 1881 - 478 pages
...of the University of Virginia." In a letter to Mr. Yancey, dated Jan. 6, 1816, Mr. Jefferson says: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and... | |
| Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 452 pages
...community as in ours, it is proportionably essential."— Washington's First Inaugural Afcssage. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson. Speaking of the continuance of the tariff on imports, Jefferson said : " Patriotism... | |
| Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 680 pages
...community as in ours, it is proportionably essential." — Washington's First Inaugural Message. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson. Speaking of the continuance of the tariff on imports, Jefferson said : " Patriotism... | |
| Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 436 pages
...community as in ours, it is proportionably essential." — Washington s First Inaugural Message. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson. Speaking of the continuance of the tariff on imports, Jefferson said : " Patriotism... | |
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