 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1504 pages
...(M. 1818. ) _ EDUCATION, Fostering Genius.— See 2398, 2399, 2400. 2391. EDUCATION, Freedom and.— If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. — To CHARLES YANCEY. vi, 517. FORD ED.. xa (M.,i8i6.) 2392. EDUCATION, Freedom, Happiness and. —... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1884 - 774 pages
...latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest. — JEFFKRSON. 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... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1884 - 750 pages
...latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest. — JEFFKBSON. 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... | |
 | 1903 - 552 pages
...crusade against ignorance; ee"tablish and improve the law for educating the common people." He also said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." The public prints are full of statistics showing how «mall are the chances for success in any vocation... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1903 - 350 pages
...understand the conditions on which alone this can be done. I. The people must be intelligent. " If a people expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects Fundamental what never was and never can be," says Jefferconditionsin son Jefferson, " the founder... | |
 | 1904 - 378 pages
...the most renowned and most useful statesman that this, or any other country, has produced. Said he: " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects to be what never was and never will be. "The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - 1906 - 428 pages
...The briefer and more pithy remark of Jefferson to the same effect is perhaps even more familiar : " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."« The total inadequacy of existing systems of education to the needs of the age was clearly pointed out... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1940 - 576 pages
...Jefferson (1743-1826. Third President of the United States. Drafted the Declaration of Independence, 1776) If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization it expects what never was and never will be. The functions of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1923 - 1348 pages
...preservation of freedom and happiness than the diffusion of knowledge among the people. If a people expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Preach a crusade against ignorance ! " On this principle the United States has entered upon the most... | |
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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. 
