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" A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with... "
The North American Review - Page 143
1881
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 464

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1986 - 996 pages
...function. Our system of self-government assumes the existence of an informed citizenry. As Madison wrote: " 'A popular Government, without popular information,...but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...made by the legislature of Kentucky, for a general system of education, cannot be too much applauded. A popular government without popular information,...but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their own governors, must...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...by the legislature of Kentucky, for a general system of education, cannot be too much applauded. " A popular government without popular information,...but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their own governors, must...
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Survey of the State of Education, Aristocratic and Popular, and of the ...

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Education - 1833 - 44 pages
...appropriations made by the Legislature fora general system of education, cannot be too much applauded. A popular government without popular information,...acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors,...
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Letters and Other Writings of James Madison: Fourth President of ..., Volume 3

James Madison - United States - 1865 - 754 pages
...made by the Legislature of Kentucky for a general system of Education cannot be too much applauded. A popular Government, without popular information,...but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must...
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Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for

United States. Office of Education - Education - 1877 - 508 pages
...made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded. A popular government, without popular information...means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their...
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Annual Meeting: Proceedings, Constitution, List of Active Members, and Addresses

American Institute of Instruction - 1877 - 224 pages
...no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant." " A popular government," says Madison, " without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be...
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Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute ..., Volume 48

American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1877 - 216 pages
...no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant." ".A popular government," says Madison, " without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be...
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The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 25

John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1891 - 568 pages
...than an hundred years ago, that popular government without popular education or the means of obtaining it is " but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or to both." After referring to the prodigious amount of waste and error in dealing with political and...
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Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volume 1

Massachusetts - 1878 - 970 pages
...useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expeuse for this purpose would be thought extravagant." information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be...
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