...evolved. President George Washington, in his first annual message to Congress on January 8,1790, said, "Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of...community as in ours it is proportionably essential." Since that time, there has been a long history—checkered by success and failure—of attempts to...

...Washington himself lent his authority to the issue. In his first annual address to Congress he declared: Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of...immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionally essential. To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways. 26...

...afterwards in his First Annual Address (January 8, 1790) to Congress, Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which...every country the surest basis of public happiness. ...To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways—by convincing those who...

...exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.... Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which...Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of publick [sic] happiness. In one, in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately...

...to the second session of the First Congress in 1790, President George Washington spoke as follows: KNOWLEDGE is, IN EVERY COUNTRY, the surest basis of...in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community, as in our's, it is proportionately essential....

...Annual Address to Congress, President Washington explained the importance of civic knowledge in America: Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of...in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionally essential....

...great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to...nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which...country the surest basis of public happiness.'''' Daniel preened. "Knowledge? Did I hear the president say knowledge brings happiness?" Daniel said loud...

...monarchies had. Indeed, President Washington's first annual message to Congress on 8 January 1790 declared: 'There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of Science and Literature.' 83 Washington desired a national university for this end, while Jefferson hoped that the University...