 | Kenneth Thompson - 2006 - 791 páginas
...enfranchised classes is beyond question. An ignorant voter is a menace both to himself and to others. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization," says Thomas Jefferson, "it expects what never was and never will be." A state cannot rise above its... | |
 | George Z. F. Bereday, Joseph A. Lauwerys - 2005 - 300 páginas
...was a strong advocate, for he saw in education the guarantee of the people's liberty and property. " 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 functions of every government have... | |
 | Philip Michael Pantana, Sr. - 2007 - 484 páginas
...Secularists are intellectually dishonest and historically inaccurate. In 1816, Thomas Jefferson said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Most states have laws that state textbooks should be accurate. For example, the law for textbook accuracy... | |
 | Michael Thompson - 2007 - 304 páginas
...interview, May 12, 1996. 59. It is Thomas Jefferson who told us what we have either forgotten or ignored, "if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." As quoted in Saul Padover, Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1939),... | |
 | Albert Gore - 2007 - 308 páginas
...get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right." He also said: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." But we are right now in a period of great vulnerability. As noted earlier, when television became the... | |
 | Mark Crispin Miller, Mark Miller - 2007 - 512 páginas
...as the people's primary means of political awareness, and therefore as a necessary brake on tyranny. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." That much-quoted line of Thomas Jefferson's expresses the profound belief in mass enlightenment that... | |
 | Cameron C. Taylor - 2007 - 320 páginas
...ignorance that tyranny begins."22 Thomas Jefferson warned, "If a nation expects to be ignorant -84and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."23 Education is essential for the preservation of freedom against the aspiring tyrants who would... | |
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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. 
