A Founding Father Quote a Day - Week 7

“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it...“

”I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.“

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right from the frame of their nature, to knowledge...“

“If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved.“

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.“

”For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”