Famous quotes containing the words free and/or public:
“The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutions ... are as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“The Muse is mute when public men
Applaud a modern throne.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)