I'm not cranky lately, really! I have just been finding a plethora of topically-relevant quotes to share. Today's quote? From no less than James Madison:
"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."
On a related note, the federal government is now 185 times as big in real terms as it was a century ago.
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