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" The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. "

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" The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. "

" To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. "

" Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. "

" The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. "

" If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. "

" Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. "

" It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. "

Carl Friedrich Gauss

" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "

" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "

" Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. "

Brian O'Driscoll

" Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. "

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "

" For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. "

" The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. "

" I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. "

" Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. "

" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "

" In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. "

" Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. "

" As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. "

" The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. "

" Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. "

" A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. "

" Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. "

" Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. "

" I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself. "

" Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. "

" Information is not knowledge. "

Albert Einstein

" It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. "