There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.


The Friend: A Series of Essays (ed. 1812)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall...

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall...

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall...

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall...