“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

- JAMES MADISON

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Painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, depicting a group of men in what appears to be the Capitol building, with George Washington at the podium and American flags in the background.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
— Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816
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A series of classical white bust sculptures on black pedestals lined up in a library with dark wood bookshelves filled with old books.

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