عليّ أن أحكم بنفسي، لكن كيف أحكم، وكيف يحكم أيّ إنسان، ما لم يكن عقله قد انفتح واتسع بالقراءة؟

“I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”John Adams — The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations (1850)