 | James Albert Woodburn - 1906 - 352 pages
...understand the conditions on which alone this can be done. 1. The people must be intelligent. "If a people expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects Fundament*! what never was and never can be," says Jefferin son Jefferson, "the founder of the University... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...my fellow-citizens. . . . I am a great friend to the improvements of roads, canals, and schools. ... If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state 14. 382. of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government... | |
 | Southern Educational Association - 1911 - 752 pages
...continuance of civil liberty or the capacity for self-government.'' Thomas Jefferson is recorded as saying that if a nation expects to be ignorant and free,...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Robert E. Lee said that the education of all classes of people is the best means of promoting the pros... | |
 | 1912 - 570 pages
...of the resources of the earth. Thomas Jefferson said: "If a nation expects to be free and ignorant in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." 94 This, then, is the problem of conservation which concerned statesmen of the earliest nations on... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1913 - 1096 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... | |
 | 1914 - 646 pages
...the same conclusion, and what they thought and wrote is best summed up in Jefferson's declaration. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." What has happened among our neighbors of the Caribbean Sea and Central America was clearly foreseen... | |
 | Horace Adelbert Hollister - 1914 - 408 pages
...substantial basis for the endowment of public education in the States, yet unborn, of the vast Northwest. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816, "it expects what never was and never will be. The functions of every... | |
 | Robert Alexander Fyfe McDonald - 1915 - 160 pages
...author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third statesman in the presidential succession, says: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." And again: "A system of general instruction which shall reach every description of our citizens, from... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters - 1923 - 834 pages
...this good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be .... There is no safe deposit (for the functions of government) but with people themselves; nor can... | |
 | Columbia University. Teachers College - 1915 - 170 pages
...author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third statesman in the presidential succession, says: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." And again: "A system of general instruction which shall reach every description of our citizens, from... | |
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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. 
