 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 էջ
...of Kentucky, for a general system of education, cannot be too much applauded. 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 ever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 էջ
...of Kentucky, for a general system of education, cannot be too much applauded. " 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 ever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1833 - 44 էջ
...the Legislature fora general system of education, cannot be too much applauded. A popular government without popular information, or the means of 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... | |
 | James Madison - 1865 - 754 էջ
...Legislature of Kentucky for a general system of Education cannot be too much applauded. 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... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1923 - 700 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 350 էջ
...and an uncertain guardian of national honor and interests. " A popular government," said President Madison, " without popular information, or the means...prologue to a farce or tragedy, or, perhaps, to both." A materialist may hold that the origin, existence, and death of nations may depend on physical influences... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1881 - 98 էջ
...burning in the hearts of Americans." Madison said, almost sixty years ago, " A popular government, without popular information or the means of acquiring...prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both." Already, in too many instances, elections have become the farce which Madison predicted; and the tremendous... | |
 | Peabody education fund - 1881 - 478 էջ
...education. In a letter to Wm. T. Barry, of Kentucky, dated Aug. 4, 1826, he says: "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring...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 own governors must... | |
 | 1881 - 674 էջ
...requires no argument to establish the truth of Madison's immortal apothegm that " a popular government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is 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... | |
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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... 
