 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...  Macmillan's Magazine - Seite 2801897Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 514 Seiten
...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...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. I am... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 Seiten
...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...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. I am... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 Seiten
...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...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. I am... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 540 Seiten
...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...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. I am... | |
 | 1830 - 524 Seiten
...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...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. I am... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 Seiten
...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 of the press,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 Seiten
...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...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I would insist, that every man should receive those papers, and be capable of reading them. I am... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1834 - 410 Seiten
...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...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter : [to-wit a Government by the influence of truth and right on public opinion through a free press.]... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1839 - 292 Seiten
...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...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." (See Tucker, Vol. I. p. 230.) But in following his correspondence, we shall find that he first fell... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1846 - 522 Seiten
...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...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."* The greater American periodicals, or critical reviews, distinguish themselves by propriety, moderation,... | |
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