| Josephine Elizabeth Butler - 1871 - Страниц: 226
...republican development of his day, but saw its dangers. " The supreme power in such a democracy," he says, " extends its arm over the whole community ; it covers...uniform, through which the most original minds and most energetic characters cannot penetrate to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered,... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - Страниц: 454
...taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp, and fashioned them at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a net- work of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and... | |
| 1992 - Страниц: 634
...half ago he warned that if Americans were not careful, Government would, and here's the quote, "cover the surface of society with a network of small, complicated...and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate." This is de Tocqueville, coming over and taking a look at our society back then. I don't know what would... | |
| John H. Schaar - 1981 - Страниц: 372
...After having thus . . . taken each member ... in its powerful grasp . . . the supreme power then . . . covers the surface of society with a network of small...rules, minute and uniform, through which the ... most energetic characters cannot penetrate. . . . The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - Страниц: 1336
...statute and regulation, De Toqueville said that you — this is him: "You cover the surface of the society with a network of small, complicated rules,...and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent and guided." I do not think we are on that road... | |
| United States. President (1989-1993 : Bush) - 1990 - Страниц: 1394
...half ago he warned that if Americans were not careful, Government would, and here's the quote, "cover the surface of society with a network of small, complicated...and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate." This is de Tocqueville, coming over and taking a look at our society back then. I don't know what would... | |
| Chester A. Zagaski - 1991 - Страниц: 682
...— that principle is contempt prior to investigation. Herbert Spencer (Regulation] . . . blankets society with a network of small, complicated rules,...most original minds and the most energetic characters cat*.iot penetrate. de Toqueville They conquer who believe they can. Emerson Foreword Rather than "Foreword"... | |
| 1993 - Страниц: 374
...taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It...complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the more original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd . .... | |
| John J. DiIulio - 2011 - Страниц: 330
...work as efficiently as they might? The effect is exactly what Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw in 1840: "a network of small complicated rules, minute and...and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. . . . [Sjuch a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses,... | |
| Tod Mikuriya, Mikuriya - 1994 - Страниц: 44
...taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It...surface of society with a network of small complicated rales, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and most energetic characters cannot... | |
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