No Freedom Without Education If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384 Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree. --Thomas Jefferson to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1805. No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity. --Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes, 1821. ME 19:408 Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science. --Thomas Jefferson to Francois DIvernois, 1795. ME 9:297 Light and liberty go together. --Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 1795. Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Madison Version FE 4:480
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