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"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 |
