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Page 482 - concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.—Jefferson. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these
Page 326 - Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot ; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not ! That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea. And wouldst thou hew it down t Woodman, forbear thy stroke ! Cut not its
Page 481 - Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential. To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways: by convincing those who are
Page 445 - that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe and my tongue ready to talk." "A man ought to read just as inclination leads him ; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Page 321 - the youthhood of the human race, for, as our beloved Bryant says : The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them —ere he framed The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, The lofty vault, to gather and roll back Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down. And
Page 482 - Jefferson. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will
Page 482 - tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 356 - The sword aud the purse, all the external relations, and no inconsiderable portion of the industry of the nation were intrusted to the General Government ; and a Government intrusted with such ample powers, on the due execution of which the happiness
Page 261 - Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained." This convention emphasizes the importance of education by giving especial prominence to the subject of aid from the General Government. Federal aid is reducible to
Page 410 - of all denominations, Protestant and Roman Catholic ; and it has now, in something over a year, over 1,000 branches, reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast and from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, and numbering over 100,000 members. These