"Our liberties are safe until the memories and experiences of the past are blotted out and the Mayflower with its band of pilgrims forgotten; until our public school system has fallen into decay and the Nation into ignorance; until legislators have resigned their functions to ecclesiastical powers and their prerogatives to priests."
--President Woodrow Wilson
... perhaps, in view of what Wilson is suggesting, it would be a good idea to point out that this quote is more than a bit ironic right now.