 | 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... | |
 | 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...reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it." The same author says, in another place, " In the American states power has been disseminated with admirable... | |
 | 1866 - 360 páginas
...English mechanic learned the value of their united strength * " Town meetings," says De Tocqueville, " are to liberty what primary schools are to science....reach. They teach men how to use and how to enjoy. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1866 - 690 páginas
...liberties.2 . . . Local assernblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science...the people's reach ; they teach men how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government ; but, without the spirit of municipal... | |
 | 1866 - 348 páginas
...English mechanic learned the value of their united strength g "Town meetings," says De Tocqueville, "are to liberty what primary schools are to science. They bring it within the people'8 reach. They teach men how to use and how to enjoy. A nation may establish a system of free... | |
 | 1896 - 866 páginas
...and the exercise of those powers by the people of the locality, and in speaking of it he remarked, " Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength...primary schools are to science, they bring it within the peoples reach; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free... | |
 | Illinois. Constitutional Convention - 1870 - 1074 páginas
...municipal institutions are to civil liberty what primary schools are to science. They bring it within people's reach ; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. The material strength and stability of the government of the north260 JOURNAL OF ТЙЕ ooNvEHTioff.... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1873 - 546 páginas
...particularly of the town of Boston. 82 Kent Com. 275, notc. *M. De Tocqueville, Democracy in America : " Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength...primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people1s reach; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A natiou may establish a system of free... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - 1875 - 452 páginas
...deliberate and to discuss and decide questions of public interest. "Town-meetings," says De Tocqueville, "are to liberty what primary schools are to science...reach; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it." In these democratic assemblies, the planters resolved to defend their homes against the incursions... | |
 | Cobden Club (London, England) - 1875 - 472 páginas
...Tocqueville should also be remembered : " The strength of a free people resides in the commune. Communal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: — they bring freedom within the reach of the people, they teach them • For the purpose of studying the organisation... | |
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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 enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government ; but without the spirit of municipal institutions,... 
