 | Susan Dunn - 2004 - 396 str.
...unforgettable pronouncement that "were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I 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 str.
...democracy, famously declared, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or 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 so that we are informed... | |
 | 2005 - 356 str.
...30 form a correct judgment. Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Trust the future; trust the young. Jefferson felt that the present should never be chained to customs... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 str.
...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 hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. into the Protestant Episcopal Church in an attempt to end embarrassing ties to England's national church.... | |
 | Mark Crispin Miller - 2004 - 366 str.
...this famous observation: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or 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 two presidential contests, Jefferson... | |
 | Joseph A. Sheridan - 2006 - 446 str.
...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...receive those papers and be capable of reading them. Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787, ME 6:57. If we do not have a strong public school system,... | |
 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 str.
...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 hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Illustrating his penchant for contradicting himself, Jefferson also commented, "The man who never looks... | |
 | Nan Levinson - 2006 - 380 str.
...history. Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I...should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." 18 Nearly two centuries later, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black affirmed the sentiment, saying, "The... | |
 | Lou Dobbs - 2006 - 300 str.
...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 hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. The founders of this nation determined that the public interest was to be served by a press that would... | |
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... were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. 
