 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
 | Massachusetts - 1893 - 1136 pages
...would acknowledge that the state has any right to interfere in their local interests." Again he says: "Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science ; they bring it within reach ; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government,... | |
 | William Eustis Russell - 1893 - 502 pages
...would acknowledge that the State has any right to interfere in their local interests." Again he says: "Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within reach; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government,... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1897 - 794 pages
...OF MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS IN ONTARIO. " Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary school* are to science ; they bring it 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,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1898 - 640 pages
...constitute the strength of free nations. Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to wience ; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach...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... | |
 | Plainfield (Conn.) - 1899 - 146 pages
...an independent nation 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. . . The... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1900 - 1204 pages
...institutions of this country, an observant and philosophical foreign writer has said of them, that they are to liberty what primary schools are to science...reach ; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. And he further observes that a nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit... | |
 | Howard Strickland Abbott - 1905 - 996 pages
...to participate in and assume the exercise of governmental duties. In his opinion : ' ' 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." "The township... | |
 | Merritt Elton Goddard, Henry Villiers Partridge - 1905 - 332 pages
...Library .... 273 PART I HISTORICAL CHAPTER I NORWICH AN INDEPENDENT TOWNSHIP AD 1761-1782 "Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science:...; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it." De TocquevilU. In America the germ of political organization is the Township — older than the County,... | |
 | Josiah Strong - 1907 - 390 pages
...institutions and to the very spirit of liberty itself. He then wrote: "Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary Great Cities Sc.nd.I of Municipal Government schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's... | |
 | Howard Strickland Abbott - 1908 - 846 pages
...meetings to participate in and assume the exercise of governmental duties. In his opinion: "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." "The New... | |
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