 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. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.  Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr - Side 135av United States. Congress. House - 1826Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1969 - 1642 sider
...state . . . and to the happiness of human life." In a message to the first Congress, Washington stated that, "there is nothing which can better deserve your...patronage than the promotion of science and literature". With the advent of increasing leisure time and urbanization in our Nation, it becomes increasingly... | |
 | 1926 - 916 sider
...persuaded that you will agree with me in the opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature....Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of happiness." Again in his farewell address he uttered the same thought advocating the primary importance... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1957 - 654 sider
...obligation of the Federal Government was made evident in his first annual address to Congress. He declared that — There is nothing which can better deserve...patronage than the promotion of science and literature. ' Ciibberley, Ellwood P.: Public Education In the United States. Boston, Houghton-Mlfflin, 1934, 782... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1960 - 904 sider
...support of education is an American tradition. George Washington in his first message to Congress said : There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Thomas Jefferson urged the appropriation of public lands for the support of education. The Ordinance... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1962 - 374 sider
...noted that our first President had said : "There is nothing which can better deserve your patrona.ee than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge...every country the surest basis of public happiness. * * * Whether this desirable object will best be promoted by affording aid to seminaries of learning... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1964 - 558 sider
...education to the perpetuation of our democratic system and its goals. George Washington said in 1790, "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 probably essential." Almost... | |
 | 1989 - 758 sider
...Washington reminded its members of the importance of progress in science and the arts, proclaiming that "there is nothing which can better deserve your...patronage than the promotion of science and literature." Less than 6 months later, the Congress passed two landmark laws: the first Patent Act, which President... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1941 - 580 sider
...(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.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1937 - 512 sider
...revealed his interest in education in his first annual address to Congress in the following words: "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential.... | |
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