 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 sider
...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 sider
...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 - 514 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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,... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1834 - 410 sider
...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.]... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 sider
...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... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1839 - 292 sider
...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 sider
...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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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... 
