The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.