 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William MacDonald - 1905 - 692 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... | |
 | L. Brent Vaughan - 1908 - 724 pages
...to me to decide sri™ whether we should have a government without newspapers or 18^8o9 a newspaper without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." We have seen that he was the author of nullification resolutions passed by the Kentucky Legislature.... | |
 | 1909 - 946 pages
...submitted to. It is necessary to keep the •waters pure." From his letter to Edward Carrington: — "The basis of our governments being the opinion of...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."-^ New York World. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. "Justice." — In the first place, do not forget that the United... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1916 - 496 pages
...governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right. . . Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. ... I am convinced that those societies (such as the Indian tribes) which live without government enjoy... | |
 | 1917 - 548 pages
...therefore the first shut up by those who fear investigation of their actions." In another letter he said: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." But do not understand me to contend that liberty or anything else can make the press perfect. What I do... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1919 - 898 pages
...thought, was most powerful when unhampered by laws and institutions. He stated the idea in many forms. " Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." And this was said of the newspapers of the eighteenth century, which could not be surpassed in ambushed... | |
 | John Baker Opdycke - 1920 - 466 pages
...ultimately engross all literature. There will be nothing else published but newspapers." — Lamartine. "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter. "—Jefferson. "Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in... | |
 | Bernhard Alexander Uhlendorf - 1922 - 260 pages
...contrive that those papers shall penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Writings, v. IV, pp. 359-360. 38 Der Legitime, pt. II, p. 237. 39 Nathan, p. 266. 40 Der Legitime,... | |
 | Augustus Thomas - 1922 - 530 pages
...reporter was attached. Thomas Jefferson, writing from Paris to Mr. Edward Carrington in 1787, said: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." It seemed to me that to take the stolen records of a grand jury and print them defiantly was a practice... | |
 | Constantine Edward McGuire - 1923 - 450 pages
...which he wrote to a friend in 1787. "The basis of our government," he said, "being public opinion, the very first object should be to keep that right;...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Alexander Hamilton is reputed by historians to have been responsible for the establishment of the first... | |
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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... 
