Mankato State University

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“Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)