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quote[0]="\"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.\" President James Madison, August 4, 1822"
quote[1]="\"A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps, both.\" President James Madison, August 4, 1822"
quote[2]="\"The liberties of people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.\" Patrick Henry<br> June 5, 1788"
quote[3]="\"Government ought to be all outside and no inside.\" President Woodrow Wilson"
quote[4]="\"Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.\" President Woodrow Wilson"
quote[5]="\"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of regular government.\" Jeremy Bentham"
quote[6]="\"Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty.\" Benjamin Franklin"
quote[7]="\"Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe.\" President Abraham Lincoln, 1861"
quote[8]="\"No one has demonstrated that an ignorant society is a safe society.\" Lucy Dalglish, executive director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 2002"
quote[9]="\"We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.\" Thomas Friedman, columnist, The New York Times, 2001"
quote[10]="\"The more that government becomes secret, the less it remains free.\" James Russell Wiggins, newspaper editor, 1956"
quote[11]="\"Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.\" John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644"
quote[12]="\"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of its people, and a people strong enough and well informed enough to maintain its sovereign control over its government.\" President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, 1938"
quote[13]="\"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right and a desire to know.\" President John Adams"
quote[14]="\"...a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is afraid of its people.\" President John F. Kennedy, 1962"
quote[15]="\"Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.\" Senator Patrick Leahy, 1996"
quote[16]="\"One of the things that almost never works is secrecy - particularly secrecy in defense of dumbness.\" Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, 1996"
quote[17]="\"When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and - eventually - incapable of determining their own destinies.\" President Richard Nixon, 1972"
quote[18]="\"The very word \'secrecy\' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.\" President John F. Kennedy, 1961"
quote[19]="\"Secrecy is for losers.\" Senator Patrick Moynihan"
quote[20]="\"We must never forget that the free flow of information is essential to a democratic society.\"  President Clinton, veto of Intelligence Re-Authorization Bill, 2000"
quote[21]="\"The Bush administration has made secrecy, not sunshine, its default position.\" Senators Patrick Leahy and Carl Levin, Restore America\'s Freedom of Information, 2003"
quote[22]="\"Secrecy has its place, but governments are always tempted to overuse the \'secret\' stamp.  When that happens, it can come at the cost of the public\'s stake in such other values as safety or clean air and water.\" Senators Patrick Leahy and Carl Levin, Restore America\'s Freedom of Information, 2003"
quote[23]="\"...the only effective restraint upon executive policy in the areas of national defense and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry - in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government.\" Justice Stewart, Pentagon Papers, 1971"
quote[24]="\"...those who won our independence believed that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.\" Justice Brandeis, Whitney vs. California, 1927"
quote[25]="\"The only thing new in the world is the history you don\'t know.\" Pres. Harry Truman"
quote[26]="\"Secrecy and a free, democratic government don\'t mix.\" President Harry Truman"
quote[27]="\"Democracies die behind closed doors.  The First Amendment, through a free press, protects the people\'s right to know that their government acts fairly, lawfully, and accurately.\" Judge Damon Keith, U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals"
quote[28]="\"When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people.\" Judge Damon Keith, U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals"
quote[29]="\"We seek a free flow of information...we are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.\" John F. Kennedy, February 1962"
quote[30]="\"For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.\" John F. Kennedy, February 1962"
quote[31]="\"With almost every passing day, public access to yet another government information resource is extinguished.  Like an exotic species or a nearly forgotten language that suddenly becomes extinct, its disappearance excites little attention or protest.  But the cumulative effect of many such losses is bound to be significant.\From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, Volume 2005, Issue. No. 19, Feb 22, 2005"
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