 | United States. Office of Education - 1940
...Jefferson (1743-1826. Third President of the United States. Drafted the Declaration of Independence, 1776) If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization it expects what never was and never will be. The functions of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1923
...preservation of freedom and happiness than the diffusion of knowledge among the 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 ! " On this principle the United States has entered upon the most... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1906 - 314 páginas
...understand the conditions on which alone this can be done. 1. The people must be intelligent. "If a people expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects Fundament*! what never was and never can be," says Jefferin son Jefferson, "the founder of the University... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 196 páginas
...my fellow-citizens. . . . I am a great friend to the improvements of roads, canals, and schools. ... If a nation 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... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1913
...JEFFERSON. (1743-1826. Third President of the United States. Drafted the Declaration of Independence, 1776.) If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization it expects what never was and never will be. The functions of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their... | |
 | Horace Adelbert Hollister - 1914 - 383 páginas
...substantial basis for the endowment of public education in the States, yet unborn, of the vast Northwest. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816, "it expects what never was and never will be. The functions of every... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters - 1923
...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... | |
 | Columbia University. Teachers College - 1915
...author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third statesman in the presidential succession, says: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." And again: "A system of general instruction which shall reach every description of our citizens, from... | |
 | Robert Alexander Fyfe McDonald - 1915 - 145 páginas
...author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third statesman in the presidential succession, says: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." And again: "A system of general instruction which shall reach every description of our citizens, from... | |
 | 1916
...the same conclusion, and what they thought and wrote is best summed up in Jefferson's declaration, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." . What has happened among our neighbors of the Caribbean Sea and Central America was clearly foreseen... | |
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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. 
