 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1836 - 694 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1837 - 402 pages
...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 - Democracy - 1838 - 354 pages
...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 - Democracy - 1839 - 714 pages
...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 - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1848 - 348 pages
...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 - Democracy - 1850 - 488 pages
...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 - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...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 - Democracy - 1854 - 492 pages
...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 - Democracy - 1899 - 514 pages
...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 - Democracy - 1862 - 596 pages
...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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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... 
