 | American Institute of Instruction - 1877 - 224 sider
...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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1878 - 970 sider
...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... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1879 - 294 sider
...schools must be free and the attendance upon them compulsory. "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... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1923 - 700 sider
...Madison, the fourth 1 'resident of the United States, wrote: ''a popular government without proper information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy." So the religious and formative epochs were passed and about 1820 the United States felt the urge of... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1880 - 500 sider
...schools must be free, and the attendance upon them compulsory. 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 their... | |
 | 1881 - 674 sider
...abstract principle, it requires no argument to establish the truth of Madison's immortal apothegm that " a popular government, without popular information...but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps to both," It is to be feared, however, that very few have clearly f ornmlated the extent and imminency... | |
 | Peabody education fund - 1881 - 478 sider
...value of popular education. In a letter to Wm. T. Barry, of Kentucky, dated Aug. 4, 1826, he says: "A popular government without popular information,...means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1881 - 98 sider
...liberty could not be kept burning in the hearts of Americans." Madison said, almost sixty years ago, " A popular government, without popular information...means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both." Already, in too many instances, elections have become the farce which... | |
 | 1881 - 350 sider
...uncertain guardian of national honor and interests. " A popular government," said President Madison, " without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or, perhaps, to both." A materialist may hold that the origin, existence, and death of nations... | |
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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... 
