 | 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,...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... | |
 | Rufino Luna - 1926 - 368 էջ
...citizens gather." President Madison said that a "popular government without popular information or a means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy." Municipal reporting aims to acquaint the people with facts about the municipality. It informs them... | |
 | Rufino Luna - 1926 - 364 էջ
...citizens gather." President Madison said that a "popular government without popular information or a means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy." Municipal reporting aims to acquaint the people with facts about the municipality. It informs them... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln - 2003 - 316 էջ
...record is that such a war is a lie. And what James Madison wrote in I822 is as true today as ever: A popular Government, without popular information,...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... | |
 | Mathew T. Cogwell - 2003 - 160 էջ
...And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or...but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.12 The sentiments expressed by Madison in 1822 are prescient today. The populace desires knowledge... | |
 | Matthew J. Gibney - 2003 - 290 էջ
...people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or...but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.'4 Jeremy Bentham based his constitutional system on the motive of "personal interest corrected... | |
 | Jacques Vallee - 2003 - 230 էջ
...: Members of the Forum Team, IFTF, 1 972 85 Fig. 12: The InfoMedia Startup Team in 1980 86 Prologue A popular government without popular information,...means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy or perhaps both. — James Madison Important developments in human history may be motivated... | |
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