 | Great Britain. Parliament - 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 - 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...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... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1838 - 354 pages
...Nevertheless local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science...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... | |
 | Nahum Capen - 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...the people's 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... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 pages
...Nevertheless, local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science...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... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 pages
...Nevertheless, local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science...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... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1854 - 492 pages
...Nevertheless, local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science...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... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 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;...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... | |
 | 1866 - 360 pages
...English mechanic learned the value of their united strength * " Town meetings," says De Tocqueville, " are to liberty what primary schools are to science....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... | |
 | 1866 - 348 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
