...in this direction is well indicated in a statement from his first message to Congress, to the effect "that there is nothing which can better deserve your...every country the surest basis of public happiness." In his last message, he calls attention to the subject, and tells Congress that the desirableness of...

...President Washington, in his address to Congress on January 8, 1790, said: " There is nothing that can better deserve your patronage than the promotion...Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from...

...abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home. * * * Nor am I less persuaded that there is nothing which can better deserve your...patronage than the promotion of science and literature." Jefferson said: "Certainly an inventor ought to be allowed a right to the benefit of his invention...

...support of free public education. Washington, in his first message to Congress, stated the following : "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with...every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one In which the measures of Government receive their Impressions so immediately from the sense...

...support, of free public education. Washington, in his flrst message to Congress, stated the following : "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can lietter deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every...

...state . . . and to the happiness of human life." In a message to the first Congress, Washington stated that, "there is nothing which can better deserve your...patronage than the promotion of science and literature". With the advent of increasing leisure time and urbanization in our Nation, it becomes increasingly...

...Congress to enact a patent statute as expressly authorized by the US Constitution and wisely advised that "there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science . . ." In 1790, the first patent statute initiated the transformation of the United States from an...

...American, which he reiterated again and again. In one of his early messages to Congress, Washington said: "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in the opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science...

...obligation of the Federal Government was made evident in his first annual address to Congress. He declared that — There is nothing which can better deserve...patronage than the promotion of science and literature. ' Ciibberley, Ellwood P.: Public Education In the United States. Boston, Houghton-Mlfflin, 1934, 782...

...support of education is an American tradition. George Washington in his first message to Congress said : There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Thomas Jefferson urged the appropriation of public lands for the support of education. The Ordinance...