 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...  Media and Politics in America: A Reference Handbookby Guido Hermann Stempel - 2003 - 237 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 540 pages
...papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to...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
...papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to...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
...papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to...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 - 514 pages
...papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to...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... | |
 | 1830 - 524 pages
...papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to...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 - 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
...affairs through the channel of the public papers. — The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to...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... | |
 | Henry Lee - 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... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1846 - 522 pages
...always tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to...government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."* The greater American periodicals,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 pages
...always tolerated when reason is left free to combat it. The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to...government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." ERJUTA. — Page 262, 18 lines... | |
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