| Theodore Sky - Law - 2003 - 460 pages
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| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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