 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 360 strani
...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...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... | |
 | Murray Shipley Wildman - 1905 - 288 strani
...public papers, and to contrive that these papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. . . . Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...newspapers or newspapers without a government I should not hesi§ 4. Notwithstanding the difficulties with England which led to revolution the American Colonies... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 strani
...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...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man was to receive those papers, and be... | |
 | United States. Postal commission. [from old catalog] - 1907 - 946 strani
...very first ohjwt should be to keep that right, and were it left to me to decide whether we Munilil 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... | |
 | 1909 - 946 strani
...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...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."-^ New York World. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. "Justice." — In the first... | |
 | 1913 - 270 strani
...government being the opinion of the people, the very first oblect 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... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1916 - 496 strani
...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)... | |
 | 1917 - 548 strani
...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1919 - 898 strani
...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... | |
 | John Baker Opdycke - 1920 - 466 strani
...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... | |
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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... 
