 | 1925 - 666 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Farish Robertson - 1925 - 528 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross, Mrs. Mary Edna McCaull Bohlman - 1926 - 434 páginas
...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... | |
 | Everett M. Hosman - 1926 - 224 páginas
...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... | |
 | Cyrus Peirce, Arthur Orlo Norton - 1926 - 434 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edwin Cornelius Broome, Edwin W. Adams - 1926 - 456 páginas
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1928 - 582 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1921 - 482 páginas
...schools without at the same time producing a cheap civilization. The real truth of Jefferson's statement, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," has been realized emotionally but not financially by America. American educational duty cannot... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1928 - 566 páginas
...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... | |
 | Terry Roberts - 1998 - 147 páginas
...access to a quality education—and will allow us to heed the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson when he said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." The core curriculum of a rigorous liberal education empowers the students, faculty, and staff... | |
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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. 
