Sunday, May 25, 2008

Quote of the Day: "Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people, who have a right...and a desire to know..."

"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people, who have a right...and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalieanble, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers...Let us...cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write...Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing."
- John Adams