"No one more sincerely wishes the spread of
information among
mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence
in its effect
towards supporting free and good government."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Trustees for the
Lottery of East
Tennessee College, 6 May 1810)

"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." --Robert E. Lee