...Lamar, the second President of the Republic of Texas and the father of Texas education, declared : The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires. Throughout the history of our...

...receive an "A" for all your efforts and results in improving student performance. Sam Houston said that "the benefits of education and of useful knowledge,...essential to the preservation of a free government." I am looking forward to working with you to help all of our communities, and I am sure we will just...

...this statute, the legislature premised its action on state interest: Whereas knowledge and learning, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government, and extending the opportunities and advantages of education is highly conducive to promote this end,...

...from the bright minds and deserving qualities of our Nation's military children. As Sam Houston said, "The benefits of education and of useful knowledge,...essential to the preservation of a free government." I agree. These initiatives by the State of Texas illustrate a widely held respect for the military...

...Texas legislature to fund a public school system in 566 LBJ 1838, he had exclaimed to its members, "The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires."39 In his quest to pass a landmark...

...savagery to civilization. —PRESERVED SMITH, FROM HIS BOOK. A HISTORY OF MODERN CULTURE (1930-1934) The benefits of education and of useful knowledge,...preservation of a free government. — SAM HOUSTON Wherever is found what is called a paternal government was found a State education. It had been discovered...