“Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect 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.”

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

“no people can be both ignorant and free.”

“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”

“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”