“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

“A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.”

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

“Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.”

“He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.”

“The right to free speech and the unrealistic expectation to never be offended can not coexist.”