 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 - Página 14por Alexis de Tocqueville - 1838 - 464 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 páginas
...within the people's reach, and tench them how to nee and enjoy it. — A nation may establish a system l)e Tocqueville. PERCEPTION. — Make a point never so clear, aud it is great odde that a man whose... | |
 | American Library Association. General Meeting - 1908 - 340 páginas
...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." If this is true, and we shall grant it at once if we are true believers in American institutions, then... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 páginas
...within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. — A nation may establish n system in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance...exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of clim De Tocqueville. PERCEPTION, — Make a point never во clear, and it is great odds that a man whose... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1910 - 484 páginas
...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.' — TOCQUEVILLE. ' Year by year the subordinate government of England is becoming more and more important.... | |
 | Eugene McQuillin - 1911 - 956 páginas
...they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free governments but without the spirit of municipal institutions, it cannot have the spirit of liberty." He characterizes the New England towns as small independent republics in all matters of local concern,... | |
 | Edith Henrietta Fowler - 1912 - 732 páginas
...Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of the nations. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.1 With these motives we ask the House to give fair consideration to our proposals. We ask it... | |
 | Walter Tallmadge Arndt - 1917 - 336 páginas
...within the people's reach; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a free government, but without the spirit of municipal...institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty." There are certain reasons, however, in addition to the historical one, why these doubts as to the capacity... | |
 | Bisel, George T., co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1918 - 628 páginas
...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." Ibid, quoted from M. De Tocqueville, Democracy in America. PART I. THE BOROUGH CODE OF MAY 14, 1915,... | |
 | Ebe Minerva White - 1921 - 136 páginas
...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. It is of importance to remember this in view of the increasing tendency to the devolution of powers... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Lindsay Rogers - 1921 - 568 páginas
...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."—TOCQTTEVILLE. s On local government in Prance, see Garner, "Administrative Reform in Prance,"... | |
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