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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.

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

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  1. Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be. – Thomas Jefferson
  2. no people can be both ignorant and free. – Thomas Jefferson
  3. No people who are ignorant can be truly free. – Thomas Jefferson
  4. When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  5. Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant. – Abhijit Naskar
  6. Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. – Thomas Jefferson
  7. A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
  8. The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it. – Thomas Jefferson
  9. A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. – William Saroyan
  10. In reality the concept of -˜other nation’ is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  11. In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance – Thomas Jefferson
  12. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion. – Thomas Jefferson
  13. Civilization must be preserved,’ says he.’Civilization’s doing fine,’ I said. ‘We just don’t happen to be where it is. – Joanna Russ
  14. The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination. – James Hillman
  15. Culture is the best society has to offer…How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) – Beth Fine
  16. Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies. – Fernand Braudel
  17. Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end. – Haruki Murakami
  18. The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. – Sigmund Freud
  19. America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. – AA Gill
  20. Your state of consciousness defines your state of mind and your state of happiness. – Debasish Mridha
  21. The idea of formulated ‘rights … comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson … but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. – Thomas E Woods Jr
  22. The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will. Lines on screens and paper do not change that. – Justin K McFarlane Beau
  23. We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. – Allan Dare Pearce
  24. Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. – Thomas Jefferson
  25. Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.- Pastel Orphans – Gemma Liviero
  26. Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better. – Gemma Liviero
  27. If you are ignorant of God’s Word, you will always be ignorant of God’s will. – Billy Graham
  28. He stared at his feet. -œI’m still very ignorant,- he said, -œbut at least I’m ignorant about really important things. – Terry Pratchett
  29. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was. – Margaret Atwood
  30. While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost. – Thomas Jefferson
  31. A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. – Martin Luther King Jr
  32. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation. – Calvin Coolidge
  33. Don’t keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won’t actually change the nation. Impact! – Nike Thaddeus
  34. True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation’s ways of justice. – Robert McAfee Brown
  35. The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth. – Philip Yancey
  36. If a nation blames other nations for its problems, most likely that nation will always be having problems. – Debasish Mridha
  37. God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation. – Sunday Adelaja
  38. The government of any nation always represents the most corrupt part of a nation – Sunday Adelaja
  39. There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation. – Sunday Adelaja
  40. A nation established under GodA nation that will only winif we stand together – April Nichole

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