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" Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. "
Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress - Page 4428
by United States. Congress - 1929
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To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power

Theodore Sky - Law - 2003 - 460 pages
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Tyranny Through Public Education - Revised Edition

William F. Jr Cox - Education - 2004 - 558 pages
...the people themselves to know and to value their own rights," George Washington suggested to Congress that "there is nothing which can better deserve your...patronage than the promotion of science and literature" (Richardson, 1897, Vol. I, p. 58). To this end, President Washington in his First Annual address (January...
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Words for Their Own Sake: The Pursuit of Literature in a Economic ...

Katherine Barnes, Jan Lloyd Jones - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 176 pages
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Lives of the Heroes of the American Revolution

Anonymous - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 380 pages
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The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War

Carl M. Cannon - History - 2005 - 348 pages
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The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American ...

B. Zorina Khan - Business & Economics - 2005 - 352 pages
...exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home. . . . Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can...Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of publick [sic] happiness. In one, in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately...
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The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American ...

B. Zorina Khan - Business & Economics - 2005 - 356 pages
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A Nation Under God?: The ACLU and Religion in American Politics

Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - History - 2005 - 270 pages
...Annual Address to Congress, President Washington explained the importance of civic knowledge in America: Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of...in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionally essential....
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The New Landers

Charlotte Kramer - Immigrants - 2006 - 409 pages
...importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to...nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can...country the surest basis of public happiness.'''' Daniel preened. "Knowledge? Did I hear the president say knowledge brings happiness?" Daniel said loud...
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Patrons of Enlightenment

Edward Andrew - Philosophy - 2006 - 297 pages
...monarchies had. Indeed, President Washington's first annual message to Congress on 8 January 1790 declared: 'There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of Science and Literature.'83 Washington desired a national university for this end, while Jefferson hoped that the...
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