"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant."
— Edward Everett

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer (1852), edited by William B. Fowle, p. 28.