| Ulysses Grant Weatherly - Civilization - 1926 - 416 pages
...crisis of the American Revolution John Adams wrote thus to his wife : " I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1958 - 1012 pages
...future. Years ago a fnrsighted President, John Adams, had this to say: 'I must study politics and war, so that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy * * *.' 1 think perhaps the events of the 20th century may make a change in that <)uote appropriate.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1962 - 374 pages
...achieved in three generations when he wrote, "I must study politics and wari that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy * * * in order to give their children the right to study painting, poetry, music." Our generation has failed to recognize that the old frontier... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - Labor policy - 1965 - 1500 pages
...city. Our second President, John Adams, wrote to his ""'fe in 17-SO, "I must study polities and wars, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, and architecture." Our third President, Jefferson, supervised... | |
| United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - Presidents - 1965 - 882 pages
...John Adams had this to say about the advance of learning: "I must study politics and war," he said, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. "My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography and natural history, naval architecture... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1967 - 752 pages
...John Adams had this to say about the advance of learning : "I must study politics and war, he said, "that my sons may have the li'berty to study mathematics and philosophy. "My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, and natural history, naval architecture... | |
| United States. Congress. House Appropriations - 1971 - 1170 pages
...letter to his wife in 1780, which I would like to add to the record : I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture,... | |
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