Quote#Truth
I affirm, in words as true and literal as any that belong to…
Quote byHorace Mann · 1796–1859
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Congressional speech (1849).
English (original)
I affirm, in words as true and literal as any that belong to geometry, that the man who withholds knowledge from a child not only works diabolical miracles for the destruction of good, but for the creation of evil also.
— Horace Mann
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