12/04/1803
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"if the people know the truth, they will never make a mistake."
"Knowledge is power. . . . If a nation expects to be ignorant--and free--in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in the State of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."