 | American Historical Association - 1891 - 542 páginas
...than an hundred years ago, that popular government without popular education or the means of obtaining it is " but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or to both." After referring to the prodigious amount of waste and error in dealing with political and... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1884 - 750 páginas
...without information. Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. — JEFFERSON:. A popular government without popular information or...means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own... | |
 | 1881 - 398 páginas
...of God ; that of the Gentiles, honour to the gods ; that of Christians, the love of God John Adams. A POPULAR government without popular information,...but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps to both. — James Madison. WHEN conscious of our own weakness, and tempted to think of our task as... | |
 | Paul Monroe - 1905 - 816 páginas
...President, was, next to Jefferson, the most active of our earlier statesmen in educational work. " A popular government without popular information or...prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both," he wrote. Consequently he held that " the best service that can be rendered to a country, next to giving... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1940 - 576 páginas
...of liberty could not be kept burning in the hearts of Americans." Madison said, nearly 60 years ago, "A popular government without popular information,...but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps to both." Already, in too many instances, elections have become the farce which Madison predicted;... | |
 | Paul Monroe - 1907 - 476 páginas
...next Madison's to Jefferson, the most active of our earlier statesmen in edu- views cational work. "A popular government without popular information,...prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both," he wrote. Consequently he held that "the best service that can be rendered to a COUD try, next to giving... | |
 | 1911 - 658 páginas
...est possibilities as a citizen. A democracy whose schools fail in this, is, as James Madison said, "but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both." In seeking to discharge their function on the side of providing proper opportunities for the children,... | |
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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. 
