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... Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia - Page 51by Herbert Baxter Adams - 1888 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
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| American Institute of Instruction - 1877 - 224 pages
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