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The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka (1994). “Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond”, p.182, SUNY Press

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

"The more intelligence I read, the more conservative I become" by George Brandis, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2014.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3476, Modern Library