 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...  Freedom of Information Act Oversight: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the ... - Page 91by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights - 1981 - 1022 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1894 - 732 pages
...that " when it is established upon a basis which can not be shaken that knowledge will ever goveru ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives, it can not be doubted that the patriotic statesmen of this legislature will cordially concur in the... | |
 | James Madison - 1910 - 698 pages
...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...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. I have always felt a more than ordinary interest in the destinies of Kentucky. Among her earliest settlers... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1884 - 774 pages
...means of acqniring it ie but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors mnst arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. Learned institutions ought to be the favorite... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1940 - 576 pages
...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...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. — Letter to WT Barry. Ibid., p. 104. While it is universally admitted that a well-instructed people... | |
 | Lewis Flint Anderson - 1909 - 370 pages
...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...themselves with the power which knowledge gives." CHAPTER XXV THE NATURALISTIC MOVEMENT. ROUSSEAU . THE views of most eminent thinkers of this period... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1913 - 1096 pages
...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...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. — Letter to WT Barry. Ibid., p. 104. While it is universally admitted that a well-instructed people... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1913 - 1010 pages
...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...must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.—Letter to WT Barry. Ibid., p. 104. While it is universally admitted that a well-instructed... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters - 1923 - 834 pages
...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 governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. John Adams was especially insistent... | |
 | Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.) - 1918 - 736 pages
...popular information or the means of acquiring it," said Madison, "is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern...themselves with the power which knowledge gives." We have adopted universal manhood suffrage in America. This may have been a blunder or it may not.... | |
 | 1953 - 348 pages
...deserve the full and undivided support of all Americans. President Madison once summed it up this way: "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people...themselves with the power which knowledge gives." I congratulate you for the contribution you are making in this community to the advance of education... | |
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