 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 526 páginas
...of the people. 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...should receive those papers, and be capable of reading tbem. I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians), which live without government, enjoy in... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 páginas
...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 páginas
...public papers. — 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...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.]... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 588 páginas
...mass of the peopie. 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...receive those papers, and be capable of reading them." Mr. Jefferson, however, lived to see that these, his favourite means of enlightening and instructing... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1839 - 292 páginas
...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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 páginas
...free to combat it. 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...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... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 626 páginas
...ambition, and wrote : " 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...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 - 1864 - 960 páginas
...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 - 1858 - 698 páginas
...464 SKETCHES OF PERSONAL CHARACTER. [CHAP. XH. 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 withool newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the... | |
 | 156 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
