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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... "
Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ... - Page 85
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America

Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 596 pages
...conclusions, he considered newspapers a necessary engine of democracy. 'If left to me,' he once wrote, 'to decide whether we should have a government without...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.' * There is not a scintilla of evidence to confute his stout contention...
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Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America

Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 580 pages
...conclusions, he considered newspapers a necessary engine of democracy. 'If left to me,' he once wrote, 'to decide whether we should have a government without...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.' * There is not a scintilla of evidence to confute his stout contention...
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Southern Literary Studies

1927 - 208 pages
...1816. ' To Marquis de Lafayette, 1823. it left to me to decide," he writes in a memorable letter,1 "whether we should have a government without newspapers,...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." In his later years Jefferson came to distrust the information found in newspapers and had recourse...
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Southern Literary Studies: A Collection of Literary, Biographical, and Other ...

Charles Alphonso Smith - 1927 - 208 pages
...Yancey, 1816. "To Marquis de LaFayette, 1823. it left to me to decide," he writes in a memorable letter,1 "whether we should have a government without newspapers,...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." In his later years Jefferson came to distrust the information found in newspapers and had recourse...
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Political Censorship

Robert Justin Goldstein - 2001 - 594 pages
...Carrington in which he penned this: "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the first object should be to keep that right. And were...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." We have the freedom of the press as the No. 1 article in our Bill of Rights. We have gone along on...
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Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age

Doris A. Graber - 2001 - 245 pages
...nation and has continued through the centuries. As Thomas Jefferson put it, if it were left up to him "to decide whether we should have a government without...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. . . ." The press, he believed, was the basis for public opinion formation, which "is the basis of our...
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Writing

C. L. Brantley, Cynthia Johnson - 2002 - 319 pages
...Independence, had this to say on the matter," continued Fairley, standing up and clearing his throat loudly. "'Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.' What a guy, huh? And a great journalist." Fairley sat back down. "Anyway, what I'm trying to get across...
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Blood Lake: A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery

K. J. A. Wishnia - 2002 - 344 pages
...tightly to my pounding chest, hoping that my future doesn't come out of the muzzle of a gun. CHAPTER SIX Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. — Thomas Jefferson Ml here are the others?" shouts the man in the green uniform. \U Slam! A hard...
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Thomas Jefferson and the Rhetoric of Virtue

James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - 2002 - 562 pages
...starting point, he proceeded to make this historically significant assertion about the worth of the press: "were it left to me to decide whether we should have...government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."32 For such a strong conclusion to be justified, thought Jefferson, it was necessary, first...
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Privacy and the Digital State: Balancing Public Information and Personal Privacy

Alan Charles Raul - 2002 - 164 pages
...government- watchdog role); Krimsky, supra note 85 (quoting Thomas Jefferson's statement "If it were left to me to decide whether we should have a government...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."). has occasionally been able to inform the public of government activities by obtaining government records...
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