“ The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any,” Wendell Phillips 1850
born in 1811 Boston Massachusetts he graduated Harvard law School when he was 16
...and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
~ Benjamin Franklin, Closing Speech at the Constitutional Convention (1787)
On state funding: Trump tariffs are going to cut deep enough into flexible spending for a lot of countries.
On private funding: I could be wrong, but it seems to me that Asian universities excelled at engineering because the U.S. universities were distracted on too many fronts. If the U.S. schools are forced to focus on STEM, then this whole calculus changes.
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