The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not... Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision - Page 16by Thomas Jefferson - 1998Limited preview - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 514 pages
...governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have...government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have...government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 540 pages
...governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have...government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have...government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man... | |
| English literature - 1830 - 524 pages
...government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have...government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man... | |
| B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...certainly have constrained him to a different course ; for he had declared, that ' were it left to himself to decide, whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, he should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.' Much as he idolized the freedom... | |
| Luke Howard - 1834 - 410 pages
...government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right : and were it left to me to decide whether we should have...Government without Newspapers, or Newspapers without a Government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter : [to-wit a Government by the influence... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide, whether we should have...government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I would insist, that every man... | |
| George Tucker - Presidents - 1837 - 636 pages
...left to me to decide, whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers, and be capable of reading them." Mr. Jefferson, however, lived to see... | |
| Henry Lee - United States - 1839 - 292 pages
...clearly the necessity of some public vehicles of intelligence, that he did not hesitate to say, that "were it left to me to decide, whether we should have...government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." (See Tucker, Vol. I. p. 230.) But... | |
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