"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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