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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
– Thomas Jefferson

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  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. A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
  7. The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it. – Thomas Jefferson
  8. We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. – Thomas Jefferson
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. – Thomas Jefferson
  12. 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
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  15. If you are ignorant of God’s Word, you will always be ignorant of God’s will. – Billy Graham
  16. He stared at his feet. -œI’m still very ignorant,- he said, -œbut at least I’m ignorant about really important things. – Terry Pratchett
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. True expectations never ever go unnoticed. So expect happiness and expect abundance. – Debasish Mridha
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  21. I prefer to rule and work in Nigeria in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free in the name of my country. – Saminu Kanti
  22. I am free to dream.I am free to love.I am free to write. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  23. He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live. – Elizabeth Michels
  24. I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial. – Thomas Jefferson
  25. Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace – Thomas Jefferson
  26. I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. – Thomas Jefferson
  27. The dead should not rule the living. – Thomas Jefferson
  28. History is philosophy teaching by examples. – Thomas Jefferson
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  31. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. – Thomas Jefferson
  32. The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. – Thomas Jefferson
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  34. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. – Thomas Jefferson
  35. It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice – Thomas Jefferson
  36. That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798) – Thomas Jefferson
  37. In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution. – Thomas Jefferson
  38. The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson
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  40. Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. – Thomas Jefferson

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