...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...

...to the success of republican government is the establishment of the public school. Thomas Jefferson said : " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...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...

...from Monticello to Colonel Yancey, after his retirement from the presidency, in 1816, Jefferson again said: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...civilization it expects what never was and never will be. . . . There is no safe deposit [for the functions of government], but with the people themselves; nor...

...success of republican government is the establishment of the public school. Thomas Jefferson suid : "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." 35 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...

...inevitably be swept into the industrial maelstrom and eventually be drawn under. When Thomas Jefferson said, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," it was gospel truth; and James Buchanan rammed this truth home when he wrote that " Education lies...

...the improved conditions for which they stand. Both Associations believe with Thomas Jefferson that, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. No other foundation...

...Writing from Monticello to Colonel Yancey, in 1816, after his retirement from the presidency, he wrote: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization it expects what never was and never will be. . . . There is no safe deposit (for the functions of government) but with the people themselves; nor...