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 Letter to W.T. Barry. August 4, 1822.
The Writings of James Madison
Vol. IX. 1819-1836, edited by Gaillard Hunt (New York:G.P. Putnum's
Sons, 1910) 103,