 | 1858 - 878 страници
...Minister of Public Instruction înJf ranee. -, , , IST1' . • No FREEDOM WITHOUT INTELLIGENCE. — If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was, and never will be. Tie functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1865 - 820 страници
...ignorance and wickedness, often draw on destruction, instead of providing for the safety of the people." " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization," said Jefferson, "it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries t>f every government... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1879 - 202 страници
...might be taught in its highest degree every branch of science useful in our time and country. * * * If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with tho people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the jress is free... | |
 | 1891 - 1360 страници
...upbuilding of a State. They were not forgetful of the truth which Jefferson had taught — that "if a people expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never •was and never can be;" and they were far from endorsing, either in their opinions or by their public conduct, the... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1873 - 212 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
 | 1883 - 684 страници
...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...and property of their constituents. There is no safe depository for these but with the people themselves ; nor can they be safe there without information."... | |
 | 1925 - 702 страници
...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... | |
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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. 
