"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 hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington (January 16, 1787); in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1955), vol. 11, p. 49.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Newspapers
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Newspapers
37 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Newspapers →
Related Quotes
"Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois, meaning that the busy, the …"
"A thousand newspapers vulgarise knowledge, debase aesthetical appreciation, democratise success and make impossible a…"
"Live your life, and bear fruits.- DIKIRR."
"If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the fee…"
"Covers Dixie Like the Dew."
"Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the m…"
"To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity."
"The advertising industry almost exclusively underwrites mass media in the United States. Newspapers obtain 75 to 80 p…"
"Like the man in the fairytale who turned everything he touched into gold, so with me everything is turned into newspa…"
"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."