 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...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - 第 464 頁Henry Stephens Randall 著 - 1871完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Rushworth M. Kidder - 2009 - 242 頁
...Stevens (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954, rpt. 1965), p. 534. Chapter Seven Resolution Principles 151 "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers": Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. Edward Carrington.Jan. 16, 1787, in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers... | |
 | Susan Dudley Gold - 2006 - 152 頁
...newspapers played in protecting liberty. He expressed that view in 1787: The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. In England and the United States, the press's role in government and society gained in importance.... | |
 | Michael Massing - 2004 - 116 頁
...were hardly inclined to echo Thomas Jefferson's famous declaration that "the basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object...government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." One of the reasons that the Bush... | |
 | Alan M. Dershowitz - 2004 - 282 頁
...Thomas Jefferson was guilty of the double standard. Before he held high office, he famously quipped, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." But after twenty years of public service, his views changed. In 1807 he said of his formerly beloved newspapers:... | |
 | Susan Dunn - 2004 - 396 頁
...Jefferson, the press was the "bulwark of liberty." In 1787 he had made the unforgettable pronouncement that "were it left to me to decide whether we should have...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." What could be more crucial in a democracy, asked Benjamin Franklin, than the open political forum provided... | |
 | Adam Gamble, Takesato Watanabe - 2004 - 474 頁
...properly informed. Thomas Jefferson, widely considered the father of modern democracy, famously declared, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."2 Of course, freedom of speech and of the press are not enshrined solely so that we are informed... | |
 | United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China - 2004 - 106 頁
...held accountable. As Jefferson, Locke's philosophical godson, observed: "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object...that right; and were it left to me to decide whether to have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to... | |
 | Ben H. Bagdikian - 2004 - 324 頁
...world and the growing conflict between private ownership and uninhibited public access. Were it left up to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1787. before he... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 頁
...being the opinion of the people, the first object shall be to keep that right; and were it left far me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to choose the latter. „ — Thomas Jefferson, 1787 Watergate... | |
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