Speaking truth to power
4 July 2010
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right…to knowledge, as their great Creator…has given them understandings, and a desire to know, but besides this, they 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.”
~John Adams, Dissertation on Cannon and Federal Law, 1765
