 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 - Seite 3451830Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 526 Seiten
...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 receive those papers, and be capable of reading tbem. I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians), which live without government, enjoy in... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 636 Seiten
...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." Mr. Jefferson, however, lived to see that these, his favourite means of enlightening and instructing... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 698 Seiten
...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...reading them. I am convinced that those societies (u the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree... | |
 | 1897 - 678 Seiten
...vermlne. — Fisher Ames, Works, pp. SS2-419. Jefferson speaks as follows: "The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object...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... | |
 | 1911 - 592 Seiten
...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." These qualifications and the ideal — dissemination of fact — remained unshaken, as more than one... | |
 | James Schouler - 1893 - 270 Seiten
...being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left me to decide whether we should have a government without...receive those papers, and be capable of reading them." Meantime the statesmen who watched to better advantage upon the spot the fatal tendencies of this Confederacy... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 520 Seiten
...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 - 1894 - 516 Seiten
...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 - 1894 - 534 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1898 - 268 Seiten
...vermine. — FisUer Ames, Works, pp. 382-419. Jefferson speaks as follows: "The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object...receive those papers and be capable of reading them. . . . Among [such socleties] public opinion is in the place of law, and restrains morals as powerfully... | |
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