 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 636 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...day. Mr. Jellerson, in a letter to Col. Yancey, January 16, 1816, uses this language: " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will, the liberty and... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 402 pages
...highest degree, every branch of science useful in our time and country. • • • • If a nation expects to be ignorant, and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 878 pages
...Public Instruction înJf ranee. -, , , IST1' . • No FREEDOM WITHOUT INTELLIGENCE. — If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was, and never will be. Tie functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and... | |
 | Wisconsin. Dept. of Public Instruction - 1858 - 866 pages
...neglected thing in every country. — Montesquieu. No FREEDOM WITHOUT INTELLIGENCE. — If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was, and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1859 - 1284 pages
...neglected thing in every country. — Montesquieu. No FREEDOM -WITHOUT INTELLIGENCE. — If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was, and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 636 pages
...indiflerentism to their own State, which we now send our youth to bring from those of Ne\v England. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1873 - 212 pages
...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 of 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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1873 - 212 pages
...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 of 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... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - Education - 1877 - 154 pages
...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 of 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... | |
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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. 
