no country can expect to glorify ignorance and retain its freedoms

Thomas Jefferson:
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be” (from a January 1816 letter to Colonel Charles Yancy, per Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations).

(DV) Drolette: In a Land of Sausage Brains, Always Suspect the Wurst