Source: The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Diplomatic Papers and Miscellaneous Letters
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.”
Speech to the House of Commons (January 29, 1828).
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