 The basis of our 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 a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Pągina 464per Henry Stephens Randall - 1871Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 pągines
...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 - 442 pągines
...contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object...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 convinced... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1834 - 410 pągines
...information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers. — The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object...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 pągines
...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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 pągines
...manner, "may be 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 not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." ERJUTA. — Page 262, 18 lines from the bottom, for " any just cause why a jury should," read "any... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 626 pągines
...seething fires, regarded it as an instrument of ambition, and wrote : " The basis of our Governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object...newspapers without a Government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter." f The French officers had become politicians. The Savans were politicians ;... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 960 pągines
...deliver an excitable, injured people to all the horrors of Revolution, he has been beheld, avowing, "Were it left to me to decide, whether we should have...newspapers without a Government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter." He has been seen ascribing the security of American liberties to the influence... | |
 | 156 pągines
...contrive that these 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 keep that right ; and were it left for me to decide whether we should have a Government without newspapers, or newspapers without a Government,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 596 pągines
...seething fires, regarded it as an instrument of ambition, and wrote : " The basis of our Governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object...newspapers without a Government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter." f The French officers had become politicians. The Savans were politicians ;... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1865 - 954 pągines
...deliver an excitable, injured people to all the horrors of Revolution, he has been beheld, avowing, "Were it left to me to decide, whether we should have...newspapers without a Government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter." He has been seen ascribing the se• Jefferson's Life, by Tucker, ii. 120. Dewitt's... | |
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