On the record
To make education and knowledge free, you must, so far as possible, relieve all books from taxation.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “To make education and knowledge free, you must, so far as possible, relieve all books from taxation.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner argues for the removal of taxes on books to promote free education.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Other voices in this conversation
