There they meet together in large numbers, they converse, they listen to each other, and they are mutually stimulated to all sorts of undertakings. They afterwards transfer to civil life the notions they have thus acquired, and make them subservient to... Democracy in America - Sida 145efter Alexis de Tocqueville - 1863Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 sidor
...listen to each other, and they are mutually stimulated to all sorts of undertakings. They afterward transfer to civil life the notions they have thus...may perhaps be easy to demonstrate that freedom of asso ciation in political matters is favourable to the prosperity and even to the tranquillity of the... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1856 - 916 sidor
...listen to each other, and they are mutually stimulated to all sorts of undertakings. They afterward transfer to civil life the notions they have thus...learn the art of rendering the dangers of freedom le^s formidable. If a certain moment in the existence of a nation be selected, it is easy to prove... | |
| Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 sidor
...separately, or should we not discover the hidden tie which connects them? In their political Tissociations, the Americans of all conditions, minds, and ages,...that political associations perturb the State, and paralyse productive industry; but take the whole life of a people, and it may perhaps be easy to demonstrate... | |
| J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 578 sidor
...consummation in America, — Education, responsibility, habit, and property. We reply, with De Tocqueville, " it is " by the enjoyment of a dangerous freedom, that...rendering the " dangers of freedom less formidable." Since the feudal times, how has the number multiplied, of men capable of that combination of self restraint,... | |
| J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 566 sidor
...America, — Education, responsibility, habit, and property. We reply, with De Tocqueville, u it is u by the enjoyment of a dangerous freedom, that '" the...rendering the " dangers of freedom less formidable." Since the feudal times, how has the number multiplied, of men capable of that combination of self restraint,... | |
| Hannah Arendt - 1972 - 256 sidor
...expedient is used to obviate a still more formidable danger," and, finally, that "it is by the enjoyment of dangerous freedom that the Americans learn the art...rendering the dangers of freedom less formidable." In any event, "if men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1984 - 800 sidor
...civil life and put them into a thousand uses. ... In this way, by the enjoyment of a dangerous liberty, the Americans learn the art of rendering the dangers of freedom less formidable. I believe that we should heed Tocqueville's warning and reject the proposals that have been made during... | |
| Lawrence H. Fuchs - 1990 - 652 sidor
...wrote, Americans "converse, they listen to one another" and work together in all sorts of undertakings. "Thus it is by the enjoyment of a dangerous freedom...rendering the dangers of freedom less formidable. "5 Freedom of association in political matters, he concluded, at least where rights were extensively... | |
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