 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1504 pages
...COUNTY, VA. v, 439. FORD ED., ix, 250. (M., April 1809.) 3650. HAPPINESS, Public servants and. — To the sacrifice of time, labor, fortune, a public...adding that of peace of mind, and even reputation. — To DR. JAMES CURROS, iv, 132. (P., 1786.) 3651. HAPPINESS, Purchased by bloodshed. — If the happiness... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 550 pages
...should receive those papers, and be capable of reading them." In 1786, to Dr. James Currie, he wrote: "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost." In 1808, in answer to an address, he wrote: "The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties."... | |
 | 1915 - 106 pages
...referring to press altercations against Mr. Jay, regretted that he should have permitted himself " to have his peace of mind so much disturbed by any...press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." And in a letter to Thomas Seymour, 1807, Jefferson held the same views. Of course we well know that... | |
 | 1915 - 418 pages
...the same place. 38T< if< X< Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe. . . . Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson. The Golden Rule Do as you would be done by. — Persian. Do not that to a neighbor... | |
 | 1916 - 804 pages
...thinking and publishing our thoughts by speaking or writing. " Our liberty," he continues, " depends upon the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." And further — " The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him... | |
 | Edwin Hamlin Carr - 1922 - 314 pages
...Burke. Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. — Webster. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Jefferson. Preserve inviolate the fundamental principle, that the people are not to be taxed but... | |
 | Edwin Hamlin Carr - 1922 - 312 pages
...Burke. Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.—Webster. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.—Jefferson. Preserve inviolate the fundamental principle, that the people are not to be taxed... | |
 | Bernhard Alexander Uhlendorf - 1922 - 290 pages
...Vereinigte Slaatcn, pt. I, p. 93. 87 Cf. Jefferson to Dr. Currie, Jan. 18, 1786. "Our liberty depends upon the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being 7K opinions in matters of politics and government. 38"Therein lies the true spirit of a life of freedom,... | |
 | Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1923 - 574 pages
...his earlier utterance on the same general subject. He had written to James Currie, January 18, 1786, "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." 41 A year later, writing to Edward Carrington from Paris on the general good sense of the public, he... | |
 | Silas Bent - 1928 - 370 pages
...than not to be exercised at all." He was eloquent in his description of an untrammeled journalism. "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost" ; and again, "Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." The people, he argued,... | |
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It is, however, an evil for which there is no remedy: our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost. 
