 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1877 - 154 páginas
...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... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1877 - 508 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1925 - 700 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1883 - 684 páginas
...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...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property... | |
 | Peabody education fund - 1881 - 478 páginas
...of the University of Virginia." In a letter to Mr. Yancey, dated Jan. 6, 1816, Mr. Jefferson says: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1882 - 350 páginas
...is essential that public opinion should be enlightened." The more explicit language of Jefferson is, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Hamilton and Adams pressed upon their countrymen the cause of popular education in terms not leas emphatic.... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 680 páginas
...community as in ours, it is proportionably essential." — Washington's First Inaugural Message. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson. Speaking of the continuance of the tariff on imports, Jefferson said : " Patriotism... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 436 páginas
...community as in ours, it is proportionably essential." — Washington s First Inaugural Message. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson. Speaking of the continuance of the tariff on imports, Jefferson said : " Patriotism... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 452 páginas
...community as in ours, it is proportionably essential."— Washington's First Inaugural Afcssage. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson. Speaking of the continuance of the tariff on imports, Jefferson said : " Patriotism... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - 1887 - 672 páginas
...freedmen to become free men, and to aid in building up a new civilization out of the ruins of slavery ? If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson. AN APPEAL TO THE WOMEN OF THE CHURCH BY ONE OP THEIR NUMBER. We have in our midst... | |
| |
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. 
