William Petty

“ Another branch is, the Charge of Schools and Universities, especially for so much as they teach above Reading, Writing, and Arithmetick these being of particular use to every man, as being helps and substitutes of Memory and Reason, Reckoning being of the latter, as Writing and Reading are of the former ”

“ Now those who labour in this publick Service, must also be maintained in a proportionable splendour; and must withall have the means to allure men with some kinde of reward, even in this life; forasmuch, as many heretofore followed even Christ himself, but for the Loaves he gave them. ”

“ Of the several sorts of Publick Charges.
THe Publick Charges of a State, are, That of its Defence by Land and Sea, of its Peace at home and abroad, as also of its honourable vindication from the injuries of other States; all which we may call the Charge of the Militia, which commonly is in ordinary as great as any other Branch of the whole; but extraordinary, (that is, in time of War, or fear of War) is much the greatest.
2. Another branch of the Publick Charge is, the Maintenance of the Governours, Chief and Subordinate ”