...intercourse between the distant parts of our country by a due attention to the postr office and post-roads. Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with...that there is nothing which can better deserve your patroiiage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis...

...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...

...noted that our first President had said : "There is nothing which can better deserve your patrona.ee than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge...every country the surest basis of public happiness. * * * Whether this desirable object will best be promoted by affording aid to seminaries of learning...

...opinion that nothing can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of literature and science ; knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.'' In his last message he said " I have heretofore proposed to the consideration of Congress the expediency...

...Washington reminded its members of the importance of progress in science and the arts, proclaiming that "there is nothing which can better deserve your...patronage than the promotion of science and literature." Less than 6 months later, the Congress passed two landmark laws: the first Patent Act, which President...