More from Noam Chomsky
There’s a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.
KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 5, 2003 (context: João Goulart)- Interview on The Late Show, BBC Television (25 November 1992)
- Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (2012), p. 83
More about freedom
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
John Philpot Curran1750–1817Often credited to Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790This was first used by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its “Reply to the Governor” (November 11, 1755) Reply to the Governor