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• Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves withthe power which knowledge gives.
  -- James Madiso...
• The most common first name for a president is James or some variation of it (in orde
  James Madison, James Monroe, James Polk, James Buchanan, James Garfield, Jimmy Carter)...
• The only true knowledge, consists in knowing, that we know nothing, -- Socrate
• If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
  -- James Madiso...
• Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843, p. 93...
• For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
  -- Francis Bacon in Advancement of Learning, I.i.3...
• That's only true because it's true.
• Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
  -- James Madiso...
• Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views.
  His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot....