 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 978 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 se* Jefferson's Life, by Tucker, ii. 120. Dewitt's... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 394 pages
...— a sound postulate which he makes the pedestal for a preposterous superstructure ; for he adds, " were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter," — the newspapers of the latter half of the eighteenth century! "I am convinced," he says, " that... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1884 - 996 pages
...me to decide," he once wrote, "whether we should have a government without newspapers or a newspaper without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." He accepted the constitution as a necessary evil, tempered by newspapers — then the very worst newspapers... | |
 | Lloyd D. Simpson - 1885 - 192 pages
...letter, dated January 16th, 1787, written by him from Paris to Edward Carrington, are these words : " Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." 11. Jefferson approved and defended the Democratic clubs of his day. These clubs were not the harmless... | |
 | Lloyd D. Simpson - 1885 - 190 pages
...letter, dated January 16th, 1787, written by him from Paris to Edward Carrington, are these words : " Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not lie.yitate a moment to prefer the latter." 11. Jefferson approved and defended the Democratic clubs... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1885 - 492 pages
...to decide," he once wrote, " whether we should have a government without newspapers or a newspaper without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." He accepted the constitution as a necessary evil, tempered by newspapers — then the very worst newspapers... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 504 pages
...to decide," he once wrote, " whether we should have a government without newspapers or a newspaper without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." He accepted the constitution as a necessary evil, tempered by newspapers — then the very worst newspapers... | |
 | Nicholas Darnell Davis - 1887 - 286 pages
...good : — " Were it left to " me to decide whether we should have a government without news" papers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a " moment to prefer the latter." — Thomas Jefferson : American Statesmen Series, p. 91. So much for Printing. Sir Willian Berkeley... | |
 | 1909 - 632 pages
...up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." In a letter to Edward Carrington he said : "The basis of our governments being the opinion of...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." A free press and universal education Mr. Jefferson held to be the true safeguards of a free government.... | |
 | Lewis Henry Boutell - 1891 - 94 pages
...opinion, is that of the Indians, where they have still less law than we." On another occasion he says: " Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." The most fantastic notion of Jefferson's, which can only be called a craze, was that one generation... | |
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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... 
