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* Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. | * Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. | ||
==Simon Bolivar== | ==Simon Bolivar (1783–1830)== | ||
* The first duty of a government is to give education to the people. | * The first duty of a government is to give education to the people. | ||
==Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)== | |||
* Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. | |||
[http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/1832.htm Communication to the People of Sangamo County] (9 March 1832) | |||
==William Blake== | ==William Blake== | ||