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It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than it is under an absolute government that they should be ignorant. Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.

Calvin Coolidge
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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

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Silence can never be misquoted.

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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

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