The College and the Republic

Unrestrained freedom is anarchy. Restrained only by force and arms, is despotism; self-restrained is Republicanism. Wherever there is wanting the intelligence and virtue requisite for the latter, Republicanism expires. The complicated machinery of free institutions must have an adequate regulator; and that is to be found in our enlightened public conscience. This our Educational institutions- teaching as well the laws of social morality as of physical science- are omnipotent in forming. -Edmund B. Fairfield. "The College and the Republic." Speech given July 4, 1853. Reprinted in Arnn. Liberty and Learning.