 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 526 pages
...give them full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass...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 pages
...contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object...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 pages
...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 pages
...subsist by its dissolution but vermlne. — Fisher Ames, Works, pp. SS2-419. Jefferson speaks as follows: "The basis of our governments being the opinion of...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 pages
...give them full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass...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 pages
...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 - 534 pages
...to give them full information of their affairs thro' the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass...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 pages
...to give them full information of their affairs thro' the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass...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 pages
...subsist by its dissolution but vermine. — FisUer Ames, Works, pp. 382-419. Jefferson speaks as follows: "The basis of our governments being the opinion of...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...to the plough. (To Elbridge Gerry, 1801. F. VIII., 42.) NEWSPAPERS. — The basis of our government 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. (To> Edward Carrington, written from Paris, 1787. F. IV.,... | |
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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... 
