 Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. 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...  Democracy in America - Page 14by Alexis de Tocqueville - 1838 - 464 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Albany Fonblanque - Great Britain - 1837 - 408 pages
...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 it cannot have the " spirit of liberty. * * * * Local assem" blies of citizens constitute the strength of free " nations. * * * How can a populace,... | |
 | 1866 - 360 pages
...within the people's 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 it cannot have the spirit of liberty." — De Tocqueville, "Democracy in America" vol. ip 56. against the nobles, against the clergy, and... | |
 | Church and state - 1866 - 348 pages
...within the people'8 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 it cannot have the spirit of liberty." — De Tocqueville, "Democracy in America,''' vol. ip 56. The Difficulties of the Irish Church. 171... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1866 - 690 pages
...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, it cannot have the spirit of liberty." " Here," said the advocates of municipal reform in Ireland, — " here we have before us the straight... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 462 pages
...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 it cannot have the spirit of liberty." In other words, constituted as our government is, while the affairs of State and nation are, in a large... | |
 | Law - 1896 - 866 pages
...reach; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free goverment, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty." (M. De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, chapter 5.) Justice Brown, in his dissenting opinion in... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Constitutional history - 1870 - 628 pages
...of liberty. Transient passions, the interests of an hour, or the chance of circumstances, may create the external forms of independence ; but the despotic tendency which has been driven into the interior of the social system, will, sooner or later, reappear on tne surface. To make... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 464 pages
...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 it cannot have the spirit of liberty." In other words, constituted as our government is, while the affairs of State and nation are, in a largo... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - History - 1873 - 546 pages
...the people1s reach; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A natiou may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal...institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty." M. DeTocqueville1s Democracy in America, chap. V. "From time immemorial," says one of the ablest of... | |
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