The benefits of education and of 

 useful knowledge, generally diffused 

 through a community, are essential 

 to the preservation of a free govern- 

 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 



