...President Washington, in his address to Congress on January 8, 1790, said: " There is nothing that can better deserve your patronage than the promotion...Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from...

...(1732-1799. First President of the United States; Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, 1775-1783) Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential....

...intercourse between the distant parts of our country by a due attention to the postr office and post-roads. Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with...that there is nothing which can better deserve your patroiiage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis...

...THE UNITED STATES. In his first message to the first Congress, Washington included this paragraph: "Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionately essential."...

...intercourse between the distant parts of our country by a due attention to the post-office and post-roads. Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential....

...me in opinion," he said in a speech to both houses of Congress in 1790, "that there is nothing that can better deserve your patronage than the promotion...Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of happiness." Instruction has become under our Republic obligatory for all in France, and is given free...

...trust, need recommendation," and adds, "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in the opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve...patronage than the promotion of science and literature. . . . Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries already established,...

...(1732-1799. First President of the United States. Commander in chief of the Continental forces, 1775-1783.) Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential....

...(1732-1799. First President of the United States. Commander in chief of the Continental forces, 1775-1783.) Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential....

...messages to the Congress, in which he said : Nor am I less persuaded that yon will agree with me in the opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve...Knowledge is. in every country, the surest basis of happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from...