 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 Railway Clerk - Page 741909Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of...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 pages
...the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of...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 - Constitutional history - 1829 - 514 pages
...the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of...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... | |
 | English literature - 1830 - 524 pages
...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...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 - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of...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 - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...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 pages
...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.]... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...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...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... | |
 | George Tucker - Presidents - 1837 - 636 pages
...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...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." Mr.... | |
 | Henry Lee - United States - 1839 - 292 pages
...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... | |
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