Speaker For The Diodes - QotD

Mar. 26th, 2008

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"If you wish to be useful, never take a course that will silence you. Refuse to learn anything that implies collusion, whether it be a clerkship or a curacy, a legal fee or a post in a university. Retain the power of speech no matter what other power you may lose. If you can take this course, and in so far as you take it, you will bless this country. In so far as you depart from this course, you become dampers, mutes, and hooded executioners." -- John J. Chapman, Commencement Address to the Graduating Class of Hobart College, 1900

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