 | Jay R. Allgood - 2004 - 468 páginas
...political polarization and bloodshed. An even greater concern was echoed by Thomas Jefferson who warned, "The functionaries of every government have propensities...will the liberty and property of their constituents." Indeed, history has shown that often the greatest enemy of a people has been their own government.... | |
 | Office for Intellectual Freedom - 2006 - 554 páginas
...a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government...information. Where the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe. (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Colonel Yancy, January 16, 1816)6 A... | |
 | George Z. F. Bereday, Joseph A. Lauwerys - 2005 - 522 páginas
...state of civilization," said Jefferson, " it expects what never was and never will be. The functions of every government have propensities to command at...but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe without information." These views on education as an essential political need have been repeated down... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 páginas
...If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was & never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves;... | |
 | C. Wayne Owens - 2006 - 137 páginas
...the First Amendment, which protects any shrill jackass, no matter how self-seeking." -FG Withington "Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." -Thomas Jefferson "When we are not free to say, we are not free to think, and that is the most profound... | |
 | David Ralph Spencer - 2007 - 308 páginas
...a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government...press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. Yet the press of Jefferson's day was still deeply entrenched in the process of paying homage to various... | |
 | Albert Gore - 2007 - 332 páginas
...sharing with others the wisdom of their own experience. As Jefferson wrote in a letter to Charles Yancey: "The functionaries of every government have propensities...is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." In the age of our Founders, this human impulse to demand the right of co-creating shared wisdom accounted... | |
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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. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no... 
