Proceedings of Meetings and Symposia>Speech: Washington, George (01/08/1970), First Annual Message to Congress, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Washington DC, Retrieved on 2013-01-08Source Material [millercenter.org]
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08 JAN 2013
George Washington Promotes Science and Literature
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. In one in which the measures of Government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the Community as in ours it is proportionably essential. To the security of a free Constitution it contributes in various ways: By convincing those who are...
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As the keys to happiness and to preserve liberty.
