“When men yield up the exclusive privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” - Thomas Paine
"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." - Thomas Jefferson
“A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” - James Madison
“Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws.” - Abraham Lincoln