...dated Jan. 16th, 1816, which will be more fully quoted in the next division of this volume, that, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and rfever will be." He believed, as has been seen in one of his letters to Lafayette, that, " Ignorance...

...dated Jan. i6th, 1816, which will be more fully quoted in the next division of this volume, that, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was andii©vet"\vill be." He believed, as has been seen in one of his letters to Lafayette, that, " Ignorance...

...(M. 1818. ) _ EDUCATION, Fostering Genius.— See 2398, 2399, 2400. 2391. EDUCATION, Freedom and.— If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. — To CHARLES YANCEY. vi, 517. FORD ED.. xa (M.,i8i6.) 2392. EDUCATION, Freedom, Happiness and. —...

...sure of a liigh rale of interest." Thomas Jefferson said: "If a nation expects to be ignorant ancJ free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never wilF be." This is the language of two of the greatest men who ever lived, and it means that the day...

...latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest. — JEFFKBSON. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these bat with the people themselves ; nor can they be safe with 1 1 ji •! !i without information. Where...

...latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest. — JEFFKRSON. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these bat with the people themselves ; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press...

...crusade against ignorance; ee"tablish and improve the law for educating the common people." He also said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...it expects what never was and never will be." The public prints are full of statistics showing how «mall are the chances for success in any vocation...

...understand the conditions on which alone this can be done. I. The people must be intelligent. " If a people expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects Fundamental what never was and never can be," says Jefferconditionsin son Jefferson, " the founder...

...the most renowned and most useful statesman that this, or any other country, has produced. Said he: " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects to be what never was and never will be. "The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power...

...The briefer and more pithy remark of Jefferson to the same effect is perhaps even more familiar : " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...it expects what never was and never will be."« The total inadequacy of existing systems of education to the needs of the age was clearly pointed out by...