 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1924 - 796 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 in 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 σελίδες
...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 ,, '. , .... . . „ ,... | |
 | 1925 - 666 σελίδες
...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 own well-being, but its conception of what really constitutes... | |
 | Pat Morris Neff - 1925 - 334 σελίδες
...questions of these destiny-making days is the education of our people. Wisely did Thomas Jefferson say, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." I rejoice that our forefathers who died at the Alamo and who rode to fame on San Jacinto's triumphant... | |
 | Alexander Farish Robertson - 1925 - 528 σελίδες
...the University of Virginia." In a letter to Mr. Yancey, dated January 6, 1816, Mr. Jefferson says: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and... | |
 | Cyrus Peirce, Arthur Orlo Norton - 1926 - 434 σελίδες
...Republic had repeated again and again, in one form or another, an ignorant people cannot be a free people: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization it expects what never was and never will be" (Jefferson). "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross, Mrs. Mary Edna McCaull Bohlman - 1926 - 434 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... | |
 | Everett M. Hosman - 1926 - 224 σελίδες
...of a government gives force to public opinion, it should be enlightened ". 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". John Adams said: "Laws for the liberal education of youth. . . are so extremely wise and useful that,... | |
 | Edwin Cornelius Broome, Edwin W. Adams - 1926 - 456 σελίδες
...the preservation of freedom and happiness than the diffusion of knowledge among 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." In most states elementary education is made compulsory. This is... | |
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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. 
