2 GREAT QUOTES
“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)
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
John Adams (Argument in Defense of the British Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials, 1770)
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
Samuel Johnson (April 5, 1776)
“The basis ...
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