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By Thomas Jefferson
if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be.
- Source
- Letter to Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816 · The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 9
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- Founders Online, National Archives
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A letter to Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816. In the same paragraph Jefferson argues for primary schools and a university in Virginia. Jefferson often began sentences with a lowercase letter and wrote & for and, and the Papers keep that.