"It should be your care,
therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their
courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in
them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity,
and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer
their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their
lives."
--John Adams, Dissertation on the
Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
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