

The benefits of education and of 'J 

 useful knowledge, generally diffused 



through a community, are essential ; 



to the preservation of a free govern- j 



ment. \ 



Sam Houston \ 



Cultivated mind is the guardian 

 genius of democracy. . . . It is the 

 only dictator that freemen acknowl- 

 edge and the only security that free- 

 men desire. 



Mirabeau B. Lamar 



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