 | 1922 - 1448 pages
...be swept into the industrial maelstrom and eventually be drawn under. When Thomas Jefferson said, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," it was gospel truth; and James Buchanan rammed this truth home when he wrote that " Education lies... | |
 | Harry Grove Wheat - 1923 - 364 pages
...government. Witness the following expressions by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison : [Said Jefferson] 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 the people themselves; nor... | |
 | 1924 - 592 pages
...function of the common school in our civilization and blessed is he who improves it. — WT Harris. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson. The education of all classes of people is the best means of promoting the prosperity... | |
 | 1923 - 74 pages
...be swept into the industrial maelstrom and eventually be drawn under. When Thomas Jefferson said, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," it was gospel truth; and James Buchanan rammed this truth home when he wrote that " Education lies... | |
 | Anson Daniel Morse - 1923 - 320 pages
...conduct so noteworthy as his zeal and efforts in the cause of education. "If a nation," he wrote in 1816, "expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." 1 It must be evident to every one who studies carefully the different forms of government, national,... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1923 - 904 pages
...public opinion, it should be enlightened. ""pHOMAS JEFFERSON— If a nation expects to be ignorant and 1 free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. JOHN JAY — I consider knowledge to be the soul of the Republic, and as the weak and the wicked are... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1924 - 796 pages
...structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it should be enlightened. Thomas Jefferson: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. John Jay: I consider knowledge to be the soul of the Republic, and as the weak and the wicked are generally... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1924 - 792 pages
...structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it should be enlightened. Thomas Jefferson: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. John Jay: I consider knowledge to be the soul of the Republic, and as the weak and the wicked are generally... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1924 - 1118 pages
...ignorance and the safety of self-government," for we are pledged to the belief of Thomas Jefferson that, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...a state of civilization, it expects what never was jnd never will be. Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1924 - 578 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 what never was and never can be," Fundament- says Tefferson. Jefferson, "the founder of al Conditions ,, '. , .... . . „ ,... | |
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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. 
