If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects 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.

如果一个国家期望无知和自由，在文明的状态下，它期望的是过去和将来都不会发生的事情。

-- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊