 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - 1887 - 672 pages
...freedmen to become free men, and to aid in building up a new civilization out of the ruins of slavery ? If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson. AN APPEAL TO THE WOMEN OF THE CHURCH BY ONE OP THEIR NUMBER. We have in our midst... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1887 - 1252 pages
...other republics much more compact than ours have lasted 500 years while we are yet in our infancy. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization," says Jefferson, " it expects what never was and never will be." To be sure we live under the conditions... | |
 | 1888 - 340 pages
...reading. . IAW " Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness." — Washington. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Jefferson. These are the words of the founders of our republic, and most forcibly do they present... | |
 | New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1888 - 340 pages
...— IAW " Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. ' ' — Washington. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Jefferson. These are the words of the founders of our republic, and most forcibly do they present... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 408 pages
...letter dated Jan. i6th, 1816, which will be more fully quoted in the next division of this volume, that, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...civilization, it expects what never was. \ and never will be." He believed, as has been seen in one of his letters to Lafayette, that, " Ignorance and bigotry, like... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1890 - 1174 pages
...their connection, and their importance may appear farther on. Jefferson writes to Colonel Yance\-: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...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... | |
 | Mississippi. State Dept. of Education - 1890 - 468 pages
...latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest." And again : "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...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... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 414 pages
...letter dated Jan. 16th, 1816, which will be more fully quoted in the next division of this volume, that, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...state of civilization, it expects what never was and rfever will be." He believed, as has been seen in one of his letters to Lafayette, that, " Ignorance... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 414 pages
...letter dated Jan. i6th, 1816, which will be more fully quoted in the next division of this volume, that, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...a state of civilization, it expects what never was andii©vet"\vill be." He believed, as has been seen in one of his letters to Lafayette, that, " Ignorance... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 pages
...indifferentism to their own State, which we now send our youth to bring from those of New England. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...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... | |
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be. 
