First Principles: Acquiring Knowledge and Wisdom Is Necessary to Self-Government

“Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.  A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with power which knowledge gives.  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.”  – James Madison

 

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