3 Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Ignorance

Thomas Jefferson quotes on ignorance

66. History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

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

133. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.