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First Of All, You Can Make The Argument That There's No Such Thing As The Past. Nobody Lived In The Past.

Any Nation That Expects To Be Ignorant And Free," Jefferson Said, "expects What Never Was And Never Will Be." And If The Gap Between The Educated And The Uneducated In America Continues To Grow As It Is In Our Time, As Fast As Or Faster Than The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor, The Gap Between The Educated And The Uneducated Is Going To Be Of Greater Consequence And The More Serious Threat To Our Way Of Life. We Must Not, By Any Means, Misunderstand That.

Washington Was A Man Of Exceptional, Almost Excessive Self-command, Rarely Permitting Himself Any Show Of Discouragement Or Despair.

One Of The Regrets Of My Life Is That I Did Not Study Latin. I'm Absolutely Convinced, The More I Understand These Eighteenth-century People, That It Was That Grounding In Greek And Latin That Gave Them Their Sense Of The Classic Virtues: The Classic Ideals Of Honor, Virtue, The Good Society, And Their Historic Examples Of What They Could Try To Live Up To.

Love Of Learning Will Never Let You Down. You Can Have A Quest For Money, You Can Have A Quest For Power, You Can Have A Quest For Fame And They Are Sometimes Gratifying And Sometimes Self-destructive. The Love Of Learning Is Always Gratifying And Never Self-destructive. The More Educated, The More Cultivated A Society Becomes, Better Off Is Everybody.