 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...  A Greater Democracy Day by Day - Página 16por Sally Mahe, Kathy Covert - 2004 - 256 páginasPré-visualização limitada - Acerca deste livro
 | Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.) - 1918 - 736 páginas
...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...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." We have adopted universal manhood suffrage in America. This may have been a... | |
 | 1953 - 348 páginas
...deserve the full and undivided support of all Americans. President Madison once summed it up this way: "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." I congratulate you for the contribution you are making in this community to... | |
 | James Thomas Milton Anderson - 1918 - 336 páginas
...of the United States, once said : " 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. . . . The best service that can be rendered to a country, next to giving it liberty, is in diffusing... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - 1919 - 580 páginas
...vital desideratum in our republics. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy,...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. John Adams, with true New England thoroughness, expressed the new motive for... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1919 - 436 páginas
...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...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." We have adopted universal manhood suffrage in America. This may have been a... | |
 | Samuel Chester Parker - 1919 - 360 páginas
...president, in the following words : 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. . . . The best service that can be rendered to a country next to giving it liberty, is in diffusing... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - 1920 - 916 páginas
...vital desideratum in our republics. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy,...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. John Adams, with true New England thoroughness, expressed the new motive for... | |
 | General Education Board (New York, N.Y.), Kentucky. Educational Survey Commission - 1921 - 314 páginas
...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 must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives." How well has Kentucky armed itself "with the power that knowledge gives? " Dr. Leonard P. Ayres, one... | |
 | General Education Board (New York, N.Y.), Kentucky. Educational Survey Commission - 1921 - 294 páginas
...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 must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives." How well has Kentucky armed itself "with the power that knowledge gives? " Dr. Leonard P. Ayres, one... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1921 - 448 páginas
...correspondence, but not at length. "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." Though probably the most widely informed man of his time, he did little more for education than occasionally... | |
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