Now to what higher object, to what
greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all of
this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the
feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to
procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and
maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and
vice?
- John Adams
