 | 1925 - 702 lapas
...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... | |
 | Peabody education fund - 1881 - 478 lapas
...of the University of Virginia." In a letter to Mr. Yancey, dated Jan. 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... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 452 lapas
...community as in ours, it is proportionably essential."— Washington's First Inaugural Afcssage. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson. Speaking of the continuance of the tariff on imports, Jefferson said : " Patriotism... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 680 lapas
...community as in ours, it is proportionably essential." — Washington's First Inaugural Message. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson. Speaking of the continuance of the tariff on imports, Jefferson said : " Patriotism... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 436 lapas
...community as in ours, it is proportionably essential." — Washington s First Inaugural Message. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson. Speaking of the continuance of the tariff on imports, Jefferson said : " Patriotism... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - 1887 - 672 lapas
...freedmen to become free men, and to aid in building up a new civilization out of the ruins of slavery ? If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson. AN APPEAL TO THE WOMEN OF THE CHURCH BY ONE OP THEIR NUMBER. We have in our midst... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1887 - 1254 lapas
...other republics much more compact than ours have lasted 500 years while we are yet in our infancy. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization," says Jefferson, " it expects what never was and never will be." To be sure we live under the conditions... | |
 | New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1888 - 340 lapas
...— IAW " Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. ' ' — Washington. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Jefferson. These are the words of the founders of our republic, and most forcibly do they present... | |
 | 1888 - 340 lapas
...reading. . IAW " Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness." — Washington. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Jefferson. These are the words of the founders of our republic, and most forcibly do they present... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1890 - 1174 lapas
...their connection, and their importance may appear farther on. Jefferson writes to Colonel Yance\-: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...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/'... | |
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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. 
