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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 the power which knowledge gives.”
James Madison to W. T. Barry
4 Aug. 1822
— http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch18s35.html
