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

• Thomas Jefferson

“Knowledge is power.”

• Francis Bacon

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A nation cannot expect, at the same time, to be both ignorant and free, as Jefferson so eloquently stated.

If Jefferson is right, then I believe we are in a potentially perilous state as a democracy, or are we?