A Founding Father Quote a Day - Week 9
21 Mar 2025 Reading time: 1 minuteThis is the ninth recap of my new mini project, where I post a quote by a Founding Father each day to this Bluesky account.
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.“
”What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . .”
”bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education & free discussion are the antidotes of both.”
”our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it...“
”it is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free.”
“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.“