...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...

...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...

...friends, it is your business to make them, want education, for, to use the words of Thomas Jefferson,"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects something that never has been and never will be." (Applause.) WEATHER AND STORM WARNINGS BY WIRELESS....

...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...

...opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened." (Washington's Farewell Address.) "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization it expects what never was and never will be." (Thomas Jefferson.) " Popular education is necessary for the preservation of those conditions of freedom,...

...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 through its several States...

...unrighteous laws. 2 An educated people is one of America's dearest ideals. v -t* 11i "'" "If a people expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was, and never can be," says Jefferson. Jefferson was the founder of the University of Virginia and he sought for...

...slavery, this other warning against the evils of an uneducated populace runs through his writings. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization," he wrote to Charles Yancey in 1816, "it expects what never was and never will be." After he had done...

...success of republican government is the establishment of the public school. Thomas Jefferson said : " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." S5 Lester Ward, in his Applied Sociology, says : " Nothing, however, worthy of the name of scientific...

...the only enduring foundation a democracy could have. He emphasized this thought most forcefully thus: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." He recognized of course that in children there are diffeiences in ability and he sought to make it...