 | Willard Grosvenor Bleyer - 1927 - 504 strani
...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, & be capable... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1927 - 208 strani
...Yancey, 1816. "To Marquis de LaFayette, 1823. it left to me to decide," he writes in a memorable letter,1 "whether we should have a government without newspapers,...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." In his later years Jefferson came to distrust the information found... | |
 | 1927 - 208 strani
...1816. ' To Marquis de Lafayette, 1823. it left to me to decide," he writes in a memorable letter,1 "whether we should have a government without newspapers,...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." In his later years Jefferson came to distrust the information found... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1928 - 676 strani
...had any connection either proprietary or editorial with any newspaper, yet he it was who could say "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... | |
 | Silas Bent - 1928 - 370 strani
...argued, must be the censors of their government, and the newspapers must be the eyes of the people. "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...without newspapers, or newspapers without a government," he cried, "I should not hesitate to prefer the latter." That is why, although the press is as distinctly... | |
 | 1928 - 374 strani
...the censors of their government and the newspapers must be the eyes of the people. " Were it left for me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government," he cried, "I should not hesitate to prefer the latter." terial is the human mind, is in a privileged... | |
 | Nan Levinson - 2003 - 388 strani
...function has not been lost on statesmen and jurists throughout our history. Thomas Jefferson wrote, "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."18 Nearly two centuries later, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black affirmed... | |
 | Martin D. Joachim - 2003 - 626 strani
...governments being in 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...government without newspapers or newspapers without governments, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive... | |
 | Rushworth M. Kidder - 2009 - 242 strani
...Stevens (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954, rpt. 1965), p. 534. Chapter Seven Resolution Principles 151 "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers": Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. Edward Carrington.Jan. 16, 1787, in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers... | |
 | Susan Dunn - 2004 - 396 strani
...Jefferson, the press was the "bulwark of liberty." In 1787 he had made the unforgettable pronouncement that "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." What could be more crucial in a democracy, asked Benjamin Franklin,... | |
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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... 
