 "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know." - John Adams  George Washington “Your love of liberty, your respect for the laws, your habits of industry, and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness”  “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”  “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.”  "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”  “The Sacred Rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of the Divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”   “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” |