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• A people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never will, and never can, be.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards -- and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves.
  But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods?...
• If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be .
  .. If we are to gaurd against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed....
• That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)...
• The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if the people are in ignorance.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• All authority belongs to the people. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed.