As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.

— Rutherford B. Hayes Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922)

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