"Whilst it is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people, and whilst it is evident that the means of diffusing and improving useful knowledge form so small a proportion of the expenditures for national purposes, I can not presume it to be unseasonable to invite your attention to the advantages of superadding to the means of education provided by the several States a seminary of learning instituted by the National Legislature"
- James Madison
Two words of advice to Groupon: Sell out. The online coupon service has reportedly declined a buyout offer of $5 to $6 billion from Google. They will come to regret that decision, because no online service lasts forever and no valuation of that nature endures.