Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right ... 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, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
-Benjamin Franklin, Maxims and Morals from Dr. Franklin, 1807
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