 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 government, I should not...  News Letter - Stranica 22napisao/la United States. Dept. of StatePotpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | Rushworth M. Kidder - 2009 - Broj stranica: 242
...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... | |
 | Adam Gamble, Takesato Watanabe - 2004 - Broj stranica: 474
...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... | |
 | Michael Massing - 2004 - Broj stranica: 116
...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... | |
 | Ben H. Bagdikian - 2004 - Broj stranica: 324
...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... | |
 | United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China - 2004 - Broj stranica: 106
...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 without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter." In America, we developed a system of separation of powers at the national level... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - Broj stranica: 438
...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 - 2004 - Broj stranica: 248
...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,... | |
 | Bruce Elliott Johansen - 2006 - Broj stranica: 512
...government being the opinion of the people, our 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 for a moment to prefer the latter. ... I am convinced that those societies [as the Indians] which live... | |
 | Bruce Martin - 2006 - Broj stranica: 336
...drink, the air that we breathe, and the food that we eat. Thomas Jefferson once famously commented, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have...without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter. . . . But I should mean that every [person] shall... | |
 | William M. Kunz - 2007 - Broj stranica: 276
...because of the information made available to the public through the media. Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1787 that "were it left to me to decide whether we should...government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."g Such discussions stand in stark... | |
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