"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; but besides this, they have a right, an
indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and
envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their
rulers."
--John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law,
1765
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