Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

The aspiring, noble principle founded in benevolence, and cherished by knowledge; I mean the love of power, which has been so often the cause of slavery, has, whenever freedom has existed, been the cause of freedom