The benefits of education and of 
useful knowledge, generally diffused 
through a community, are essential 
to the preservation of a free gov- 
ernment. 
Sam Houston. 
Cultivated mind is the guardian 
genius of democracy. . . . Itis the 
only dictator that freemen acknowl- 
edge and the only security that free- 
men desire. 
Mirabeau B. Lamar. 
