* 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.
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==Simon Bolivar==
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==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.
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==Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)==
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* 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.
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[http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/1832.htm Communication to the People of Sangamo County] (9 March 1832)