 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 - 1999 - 676 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... | |
 | Joad Raymond - 1999 - 254 pages
...that cannot be limited without being lost." A year later he elaborated: The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object...latter. But I should mean that every man should receive these papers and be capable of reading them.18 The connection between democracy and a (relatively)... | |
 | Michael Rosen - 1999 - 114 pages
...in motion that it will roll round the globe." (From a 1795 letter to Tench Coxe) "Were it left for me to decide whether we should have a government without...prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man ... be capable of reading them." (From a 1787 letter to Edward Carrington) "I place economy among the... | |
 | Maureen E. Kenny, Lou Anna K. Simon, Karen Kiley-Brabeck, Richard M. Lerner - 2001 - 472 pages
...left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer...receive those papers, and be capable of reading them." (1787) Jefferson recognized that individual liberty requires an unfettered press and a community capable... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 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 . . . under the pretence of governing, they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and... | |
 | Martin D. Joachim - 2003 - 626 pages
...should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without governments, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them . . .-s And although his faith in newspapers was thoroughly shaken by... | |
 | Joseph A. Sheridan - 2006 - 446 pages
...frequently discussed, and to citizens who are "... capable of reading them." The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object...receive those papers and be capable of reading them. Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787, ME 6:57. If we do not have a strong public school system,... | |
 | Bruce Martin - 2006 - 336 pages
...should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter. . . . But I should mean that every [person] shall receive these papers and be capable of reading them" (Boyd 1950, p. 49). Jefferson considered... | |
 | E. D. Hirsch - 2007 - 197 pages
...their equivalent with understanding is the essence of democracy. Jefferson put the issue unforgettably: "The basis of our government being the opinion of...should receive those papers and be capable of reading them."4 The last phrase, "be capable of reading them," is often omitted from the quotation, but it... | |
 | Karin Pühringer - 2007 - 270 pages
...ersten Amtszeit als US-amerikanischer Präsident (1801-1809) äußerte: „The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object...receive those papers and be capable of reading them." (Jefferson 1787) * Wenn Journalisten in Zeitungsredaktionen fähig sein sollen, die ,richtigen' Ausschnitte... | |
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