...governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right. . . Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. ... I am convinced that those societies (such as the Indian tribes)...

...therefore the first shut up by those who fear investigation of their actions." In another letter he said: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." But do not understand me to contend that liberty or anything else can...

...thought, was most powerful when unhampered by laws and institutions. He stated the idea in many forms. " Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." And this was said of the newspapers of the eighteenth century, which...

...ultimately engross all literature. There will be nothing else published but newspapers." — Lamartine. "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter. "—Jefferson. "Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit, or enacted...

...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...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Writings, v. IV, pp. 359-360. 38 Der Legitime, pt. II, p. 237. 39 Nathan,...

...reporter was attached. Thomas Jefferson, writing from Paris to Mr. Edward Carrington in 1787, said: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." It seemed to me that to take the stolen records of a grand jury and...

...government," he said, "being public opinion, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Alexander Hamilton is reputed by historians to have been responsible...

...the case and a history of the trial, pp. 173-246. u T. Jefferson, Writings, Ford Edition, IV, 132. to decide whether we should have a government without...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...

...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...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...

...conclusions, he considered newspapers a necessary engine of democracy. 'If left to me,' he once wrote, 'to decide whether we should have a government without...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.' * There is not a scintilla of evidence to confute his stout contention...