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4709. LIBERTY, Sacred.—

For promoting
the public happiness, those persons whom nature
has endowed with genius and virtue
should be rendered by liberal education
worthy to receive, and able to guard the
sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of
their fellow citizens; and they should be
called to that charge without regard to
wealth birth, or other accidental condition or
circumstance.—
Diffusion of Knowledge Bill. Ford ed., ii, 221.
(1779)