 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...  Presidential Records Act of 1978: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the ... - Էջ 433United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights - 1978 - 896 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1922 - 1534 էջ
...people impressed, perhaps unconsciously, with the ideal which was voiced years ago by James Madison, "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but the prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or probably both. A people who mean to be their own governors... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States. Meeting - 1922 - 1550 էջ
...people impressed, perhaps unconsciously, with the ideal which was voiced years ago by James Madison, "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but the prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or probably both. A people who mean to be their own governors... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1922 - 1162 էջ
...James Madison, the fourth President 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... | |
 | Harry Grove Wheat - 1923 - 364 էջ
...people of Russia to rule themselves, there began to manifest themselves the inevitable consequences of a "popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it. " The people in whose hands was the authority of government neither had the necessary information on... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1925 - 1172 էջ
...among all the citizens. Madison voiced this necessity in his luminous letter to Barry, in which he wrote: "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... | |
 | Alexander Farish Robertson - 1925 - 528 էջ
...of popular education. In a letter to William T. Barry, of Kentucky, dated August 4, 1826, he says: "A popular government without popular information,...the 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... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross, Mrs. Mary Edna McCaull Bohlman - 1926 - 434 էջ
...government. He never lost an opportunity to impress the people with the dangers of ignorance. He said : A popular government without popular information,...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... | |
 | Lent Dayton Upson - 1926 - 616 էջ
...of education is necessary if it is true, as James Madison observed more than a century ago, that ' ' Popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is the prologue to a farce or a tragedy." 1 It is not sufficient that education prepare the individual... | |
 | 1928 - 298 էջ
...you going to do about it?' I asked her. " 'Oh, I've redoubled,' she replied with a careless laugh." "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but H prologue to a farce or a tragedy." A French economist ouce said "the best tax is the one that gets... | |
 | 1933 - 510 էջ
...Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." Madison James Madison in a letter to a friend wrote: " Popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." Jackson Andrew Jackson, who was liberal in his attitude towards... | |
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