The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
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