"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."
— Education

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Sam Houston by the University of Texas. This quotation appears on the verso of the title-page of all University of Texas publications. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).