 | United States. Office of Education - 1940 - 576 σελίδες
...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 their... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - 1906 - 428 σελίδες
...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...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 by... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1923 - 1348 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1906 - 352 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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, in a...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 their... | |
 | 1914 - 646 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
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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. 
