"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
"Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant."
"When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk."
"No people can be both ignorant and free."
"Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat."
"The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom."
"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."
"People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid."
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders."