 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 free government, but without municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit...  Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York - Page 5by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1877Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1863 - 588 pages
...experienced its advantages. Yet municipal institutions constitute the strength of free nations. Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science...use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a free government, but without municipal institutions, it cannot have the spirit of liberty. Transient... | |
 | 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....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 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1870 - 628 pages
...experienced its advantages. Yet municipal institutions constitute the strength of free nations. Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science...use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a free government, but without municipal institutions, it cannot have the spirit of liberty. Transient... | |
 | 1896 - 866 pages
...powers by the people of the locality, and in speaking of it he remarked, " Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations." " Municipal...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 pages
...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 pages
...Boston. 82 Kent Com. 275, notc. *M. De Tocqueville, Democracy in America : " Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal...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... | |
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