 | Windham (N.H. : Town) - Windham (N.H. : Town) - 1892 - 172 pages
...community well educated cannot be overstated. Thomas Jefferson once said : " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was, and never will be." Our republic is founded upon intelligence, with the common school as its corner-stone. A New England... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - Education - 1934 - 260 pages
...suitable provision should be made for the proper education of their children. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be", said he, and added that "no nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity." So strong was... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on education - 1934 - 272 pages
...suitable provision should be made for the proper education of their children. " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be", said he, and added that "no nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity." So strong was... | |
 | United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Education - 1953 - 866 pages
...secure only through widespread popular education. Said Thomas Jefferson, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be." This basic idea — that only the educated man can be truly free, and that self-government is possible... | |
 | Occupations - 1961 - 670 pages
...Automation and Training, US Department of Labor, Washington, DC, 20212. // a nation expects to T)e ignorant and free, it expects what never wa-s and never will ~be. Training Workers in Landscape Construction and Maintenance By CHARLOTTE RICHMOND Service jobs — -which... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1960 - 202 pages
...Today, more than ever, we see the meaning of Thomas Jefferson's assertion that if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. Education has helped us to break the bonds and develop a society in which the standard of living is... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1965 - 1204 pages
...freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant. Thomas Jefferson once said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be." Our nation's school systems were founded on that proposition. Last year 48 million students were enrolled... | |
 | United States - 1986 - 486 pages
...and terror on the continent of the Americas. Thomas Jefferson once said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, ... it expects what never was and never will be." It's our job to make certain the American people get the facts about what is at stake in Central America.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1966 - 1912 pages
...ability to create a breeding ground for freedom. It is worth recalling the way Thomas Jefferson put it : "If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." In his address at the Smithsonian Institution last September, President Johnson pointed out that "education... | |
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Jefferson, a broadly educated man, argued that "if a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be. 
