 | Adam Gamble, Takesato Watanabe - Political Science - 2004 - 474 pages
...properly informed. Thomas Jefferson, widely considered the father of modern democracy, famously declared, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...newspapers without a 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... | |
 | Alan M. Dershowitz - Political Science - 2004 - 282 pages
...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...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." But after twenty years of public service, his views changed. In 1807... | |
 | Susan Dudley Gold - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 152 pages
...government 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...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. In England and the United States, the press's role in government and... | |
 | Michael Massing - History - 2004 - 116 pages
...government 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...government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." One of the reasons that the Bush... | |
 | United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China - Business & Economics - 2004 - 106 pages
...people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether to have a government without newspapers or newspapers...government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter." In America, we developed a system of separation of powers at the national level and purposeful tension... | |
 | Ben H. Bagdikian - Social Science - 2004 - 324 pages
...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 - History - 2003 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum - Humor - 2004 - 248 pages
...its nickname, "The Fourth Estate. "4 No less an authority than Thomas Jefferson wrote, "lf it were left to me to decide whether we should have a government without a free press or a free press without a government, l would prefer the latter." 1 le then added, "Now,... | |
 | Mark Crispin Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 366 pages
...expects what never was and never will be," wrote Jefferson, who also made this famous observation: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Even in his final years, much scarred by journalistic calumny in his... | |
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The basis of our government 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... 
