...indifferentism to their own State, which we now send our youth to bring from those of New England. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...state of civilization, it expects what never was and tiever will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty...

...ignorance and wickedness, often draw on destruction, instead of providing for the safety of the people." " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization," said Jefferson, "it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries t>f every government...

...might be taught in its highest degree every branch of science useful in our time and country. * * * If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with tho people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the jress is free...

...upbuilding of a State. They were not forgetful of the truth which Jefferson had taught — that "if a people expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never •was and never can be;" and they were far from endorsing, either in their opinions or by their public conduct, the...

...government, and has been fully recognized by the statesmen of our own republic. Jefferson has said " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Webster is even more emphatic when he says, " I have no conception of any means in which the popular...

...government, and has been fully recognized by the statesmen of our own republic. Jefferson has said " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Webster is even more emphatic when he says, " I have no conception of any means in which the popular...

...like other insanities, are incapable of self-government." In a letter to another friend he wrote, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Not to quote longer from Thomas Jefferson's correspondence, it is inter1 Jefferson and Wytho made a...

...might be taught in its highest degree every branch of science useful in our time aud country. * * * If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was aud never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty...

...the latest, of all the concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest." — JEFFERSON. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...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."...

...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...