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

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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3rd President of the United States of America

April 13th, 1743 - July 4th, 1826