 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. 2 Throughout the civilized world, nations are courting the praise of fostering science and the useful... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. 2 Throughout the civilized world, nations are courting the praise of fostering science and the useful... | |
 | James Madison - United States - 1865 - 754 pages
...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...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. I have always felt a more than ordinary interest in the destinies of Kentucky. Among her earliest settlers... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1879 - 202 pages
...acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce ,or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their...themselves with the power •which knowledge gives." — (Works of Madison, iii, 276.) Again, March 29, 1826, writing to Littleton Dennis Teackle, of Maryland,... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1877 - 216 pages
...of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. . . . No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1877 - 508 pages
...of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their...themselves with the power which knowledge gives." — (Works of Madison, iii, 276.) Again, March 29, 1826, writiug to Littleton Dennis Teaekle, of Maryland,... | |
 | Montana (Ter.). Superintendent of Public Instruction - 1877 - 532 pages
...are so broad and liberal as to be worthy of a careful consideration. He says: "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. * * It is thought to be unjust that all should be taxed for the benefit of a part, and that, too, the... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1877 - 224 pages
...of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. . . . No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1878 - 970 pages
...of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject :... | |
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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... 
