...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...to convey no more than the opinions of one of your thousand constituents, and to claim no more attention than every other of that thousand. I will ask...

...for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them, without information. When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." 4. Aside from the overwhelming motives of self-preservation, which apply to nations as to individuals,...

...for these, but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." To Dr. Priestly, January 27, 1800 : " About twenty years ago, I drew a bill for our Lcgisture, which...

...fanaticism, and 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,...to convey no more than the opinions of one of your thousand constituents, and to claim no more attention than every other of that thousand. I will ask...

...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...is free and every man able to read, all is safe." — (Works, 517.) 'Ho said: " Whilst it is universally admitted that a well instructed people alono...

...to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for them but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe...is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." In another letter, to Governor Nicholas, dated April 2, 1816, speaking of his system of elementary...

...people must be educated; must be able to read the ballot they are casting. Said Mr. Jefferson : "If the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." Is the press free? Can every voter read his ballot? Said Washington, in his first annual message: "Knowledge...

...latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest." And again : "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...is free and every man able to read, all is safe." He prepared a bill, to use his own language, "for elementary schools, for all the children, rich and...

...held to be the true safeguards of a free government. Thus he said in a letter to Charles Yancey: "When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." And again, in one of his addresses, he observed : "The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other...

...the population of the State, it would set agoing at once, and forever maintain, a system of pr.mary or ward schools, and an university where might be...to convey no more than the opinions of one of your thousand constituents, and to claim no more attention than every other of that thousand. I will ask...