| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 7370 |
| AUTHOR: | James Russell Lowell (18191891) |
| QUOTATION: | It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Among my Books. First Series. New England two Centuries ago. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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