...ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be. The functions of every government have propensities to command at...people themselves; nor can they be safe with them \vithout information. — Letter to Col. Yancey. Monticello, Jan. 6, 1816. Writings, p. 517. Washington...

...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 have propensities to command at will the property and liberty of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but the people themselves,...

...liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties." From his letter to Charles Yancey: — "When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." From his letter to the Marquis de Lafayette: — "The only security of all is a free press. The force...

...ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be. The functions of every government have propensities to command at...nor can they be safe with them without information. — Letter to Col. Yancey. Monticello, Jan. 6, 1816. Writings, p. 517. Washington ed. I have, indeed,...

...find among any of the tribes a trace of anything like a belief in a supreme being. PRESS INKLINGS. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe. — Thomas Jefferson. It is generally conceded that the occidental or Western Press had its rise in...

...civilization," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816, "it expects what never was and never will be. The functions of every government have propensities to command at...nor can they be safe with them without information." In 1845, after having led in that great educational revival in New England which brought about the...

...workmen; if the present damage is suffered to continue, the blame will fall in the same place. 38T< if< X< Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe. . . . Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost....

...Catholics, and we much dislike to say anything to reflect in an) way upon the Catholic Church ; but if Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.— Thomas Jefferson, 1816. The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving...

...neglect so long the provision for primary instruction for all the people of the state.2 He says : " Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." 1 In a letter to Hugh White, in 1810, Jefferson writes: "No one more sincerely wishes the spread of...

...neglect so long the provision for primary instruction for all the people of the state.2 He says : " Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." 1 In a letter to Hugh White, in 1810, Jefferson writes : "No one more sincerely wishes the spread of...