Country Quote by Samuel Adams

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue…

— Samuel Adams

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

— William Beveridge

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

— James Monroe

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

— Bill Richardson

Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men…

— Aristotle

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

— Frances Wright

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

— Thomas Jefferson

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

— Voltaire

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

— John Simon

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

— Ann Plato

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

— Samuel Johnson