 | Robert Alexander Fyfe McDonald - 1915 - 160 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Columbia University. Teachers College - 1915 - 170 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1923 - 284 σελίδες
...friends, it is your business to make them, want education, for, to use the words of Thomas Jefferson,"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects something that never has been and never will be." (Applause.) WEATHER AND STORM WARNINGS BY WIRELESS.... | |
 | 1916 - 222 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... | |
 | Walter Robinson Smith - 1917 - 444 σελίδες
...opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened." (Washington's Farewell Address.) "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization it expects what never was and never will be." (Thomas Jefferson.) " Popular education is necessary for the preservation of those conditions of freedom,... | |
 | 1921 - 638 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 through its several States... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - 1918 - 506 σελίδες
...unrighteous laws. 2 An educated people is one of America's dearest ideals. v -t* 11i "'" "If a people expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was, and never can be," says Jefferson. Jefferson was the founder of the University of Virginia and he sought for... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1918 - 346 σελίδες
...slavery, this other warning against the evils of an uneducated populace runs through his writings. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization," he wrote to Charles Yancey in 1816, "it expects what never was and never will be." After he had done... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1919 - 540 σελίδες
...success of republican government is the establishment of the public school. 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." S5 Lester Ward, in his Applied Sociology, says : " Nothing, however, worthy of the name of scientific... | |
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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. 
