The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.