Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-06-07 Jun 7, 2006A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.~ Benjamin FranklinTo educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.~ Frederick DouglassNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jun 6, 2006There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.~ Robert G. IngersollKnowledge and human power are synonymous.~ Sir Francis BaconIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 5, 2006Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights~ Dr. Benjamin RushLearning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.~ Abigail AdamsThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.~ James Madison Jun 2, 2006The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.~ George WashingtonThe preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.~ George WashingtonThere is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.~ George Washington Jun 1, 2006When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.~ John AdamsThere is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.~ John Adams[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.~ John Adams Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print