 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
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 620 pages
...the public papers, and to contrive L 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... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 626 pages
...though beholding around him its seething fires, regarded it as an instrument of ambition, and wrote : " The basis of our Governments being the opinion of...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 - United States - 1864 - 960 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 710 pages
...the public papers, and to contrive that tho=o 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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 726 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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 698 pages
...be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government withool 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 capable of reading them. I am... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 pages
...should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of i the people, the very first object should be to keep...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... | |
 | 156 pages
...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...Government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer tho latter." Previous to the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty, we were told by the "certificated... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...subsist by its dissolution but vermlne. — Fisher Ames, Works, pp. SS2-419. Jefferson speaks as follows: "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. . . .... | |
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