"Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors."
--John Adams, letter to the young men of the Philadelphia, 1798
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"The reason they had to try to take me down is because I've been effective in fighting the special interests in Washington, D.C.," she said.
Yes, believe it or not, Pelosi actually said this.
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