 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pagini
...but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their own governors, must...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 - 1830 - 336 pagini
...but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their own governors, must...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. 2 Throughout the civilized world, nations are courting the praise of fostering science and the useful... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1833 - 44 pagini
...is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors, must...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. "Throughout the civilired world, nations are courting the praise of fostering science and the useful... | |
 | James Madison - 1865 - 754 pagini
...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. I have always felt a more than ordinary interest in the destinies of Kentucky. Among her earliest settlers... | |
 | Montana (Ter.). Superintendent of Public Instruction - 1877 - 532 pagini
...as to be worthy of a careful consideration. He says: "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their own governors must 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 - 216 pagini
...a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to 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. . . . No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1877 - 508 pagini
...a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to 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." — (Works of Madison, iii, 276.) Again, March 29, 1826, writiug to Littleton Dennis Teaekle, of Maryland,... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1877 - 224 pagini
...a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to 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. . . . No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1878 - 890 pagini
...this purpose would be thought extravagant. Madison says: Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. * * « Every class is interested in establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvement.... | |
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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... 
