Town- meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions... Pennsylvania Archives - Página 464editado por - 1902Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1836 - 694 páginas
...preserving the privileges of freemen. To use the words of an eloquent foreigner, De Tocqueville, "They are to liberty what primary schools are to science. They bring it within the peopie's reach. They teach men to use it, and to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free... | |
| Albany Fonblanque - 1837 - 402 páginas
...individual." Tocqueville concurs in this view of municipal institutions. He says — " Town-meetings are to liberty what primary " schools are to science ; they bring it within the " people's reach, they teach men how to use and " how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a " system... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1838 - 354 páginas
...is certainly no nation on the continent of Europe which has experienced its advantages. Nevertheless local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength...primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 páginas
...its advantages. Nevertheless, local assemblies of citizens'constitute the strength of free na. tions. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
| Nahum Capen - 1848 - 348 páginas
...assemblies of citizens," says De Tocqueville, " constitute the strength of free nations. Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it." The same author says, in another... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 páginas
...certainly no nation on the .continent of Europe which has experienced its advantages. Nevertheless, local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength...primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 páginas
...certainly no nation on the continent of Europe which has experienced its advantages. Nevertheless, local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength...primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1854 - 492 páginas
...certainly no nation on the continent of Europe which has experienced its advantages. Nevertheless, local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength...primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1899 - 514 páginas
...advantages. Nevertheless local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1862 - 596 páginas
...advantages. Nevertheless local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
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