 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 Westminster Review - Page 3451830Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...useful and would have to go to the plough. (To Elbridge Gerry, 1801. F. VIII., 42.) NEWSPAPERS. — The basis of our government being the opinion of the...latter. But I should mean that every man should receive these papers and be capable of reading them. (To> Edward Carrington, written from Paris, 1787. F. IV.,... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 654 pages
...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean 9 that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them. . . . Among [such societies] public opinion is in the place of law, and restrains morals as powerfully... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 556 pages
...interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs, through the channel of public papers, and to contrive that those -papers...receive those papers, and be capable of reading them." In 1786, to Dr. James Currie, he wrote: "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 550 pages
...interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs, through the channel of public papers, and to contrive that those papers should...receive those papers, and be capable of reading them." In 1786, to Dr. James Currie, he wrote: "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 536 pages
...contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object...should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them. I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 334 pages
...contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object...receive those papers, and be capable of reading them. On the Theory of Government and on Louisiana To James Madison JANUARY SO, 1787. Dear Sir: I am impatient... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object...prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man was to receive those papers, and be capable of reading them. I am convinced that those societies (as... | |
 | United States. Postal commission. [from old catalog] - 1907 - 946 pages
...very first ohjwt should be to keep that right, and were it left to me to decide whether we Munilil have a Government without newspapers, or newspapers...should receive those papers and be capable of reading I hem. That was Thomas Jefferson's opinion, and that opinion has been coincided with by every leading... | |
 | Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1923 - 574 pages
...the case and a history of the trial, pp. 173-246. u T. Jefferson, Writings, Ford Edition, IV, 132. to decide whether we should have a government without...receive those papers, and be capable of reading them." 42 In the same spirit he later wrote to Charles Yancey, saying "where the press is free, and every... | |
 | George Henry Payne - 1920 - 496 pages
...errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to...receive those papers, and be capable of reading them." 6 In a letter written to Madison from Paris, July 31, 1788, Jefferson said that he thought the new... | |
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