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“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

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Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Marat

“I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be fought over again, and will probably be lost, because the people are already ignorant of its true basis and conditions.”

People Christian America Lost Religious Liberty Conditions Battle Bases Ignorant Religious Liberty

Author:Robert Dabney

“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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