 | Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.) - Women - 1918 - 736 pages
..."in a peaceable manner." The humor of this omission would be refreshing, if it were not so serious. "A popular government without 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... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - Christian sociology - 1919 - 436 pages
...serious. "A popular government without 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 ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - Christian sociology - 1919 - 436 pages
..."in a peaceable manner." The humor of this omission would be refreshing, if it were not so serious. "A popular government without 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... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - Education - 1920 - 902 pages
...wrote: A satisfactory plan for primary education is certainly a vital desideratum in our republics. A popular government without popular information or...both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1922 - 1162 pages
...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 felt the urge of... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1922 - 1534 pages
...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 - Education - 1922 - 1550 pages
...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... | |
 | Harry Grove Wheat - Reading - 1923 - 364 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
