Royal Governor Berkeley the Butcher. Fought in the English Civil War for the King, later made Gov. of Va.
He, and the British King, and the Cherokee Indians, forcibly established the instititution of Black Slavery in North America.
This led to Breeds revolt by Americans, which was crushed, land seized, mass hangings.
I believe Berkeley was summing up his conclusion from both wars with uppity subordinates.
"I thank God, we have not free schools nor printing;
and I hope we shall not have these for a hundred years.
For learning has brought disobedience,
and heresy and sects into the world;
and printing has divulged them
and libels against our good government.
God keep us from both!"

It's more of a class attitude than Earl Brinson's remarks suggest. Berkeley is against FREE schools, the sorts that educate the lesser and poorer sort of people who then begin to question the wisdom, justice, and entitlement of their (supposed) social betters. I don't think we should 'condemn Sir William for eternity' either, but we should acknowledge his powerful anti-egalitarian and elitist view as fundamental to his Virginia society--and as American as apple pie. Belief in hierarchy and in keeping the poor ignorant and uninformed about the acts of government has a long history in the U.S.
-- Barbara Smith, Charlottesville, VA
I hate to admit it, but I am forced to agree "Belief in hierarchy and in keeping the poor ignorant and uninformed about the acts of government.." precisely defines our bipartisan neoLiberal ruling regime of the past forty years.
I like to believe the Eisenhower/Nixon Era was a exception to this, as eglatarianism seemed to reign supreme in that time, and Nixon one of our most open and transparent Presidents.