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• A people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never will, and never can, be.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, ... it expects what never was and never will be.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• That truth cannot be material in any respect, is contrary to the nature of things.
  No tribunal, no codes, no systems can repeal or impair this law of God, for by his eternal laws it is inherent in the nature of things ....
• The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
  -- Eric Hoffe...
• While it is true that you are free to say what you think in this great land, it should be said that it is helpful to think what you are going to say before you do it.
• What is a "free gift?" Aren't all gifts free?
• If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be .
  .. If we are to gaurd against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed....
• The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...