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By Chester Alan Arthur
Although our system of government does not contemplate that the nation should provide or support a system for the education of our people, no measures calculated to promote that general intelligence and virtue upon which the perpetuity of our institutions so greatly depends have ever been regarded with indifference by Congress or the Executive.
- Source
- First Annual Message, December 6, 1881
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Chester A. Arthur's first annual message to Congress on December 6, 1881. He is introducing his case for federal aid to schools, which he goes on to link to freed people who had become citizens without being able to read.