 The great advantage of the Americans is that they have arrived at a state of democracy without having to endure a democratic revolution; and that they are born equal, instead of becoming so.  Democracy in America - 108. lappuseautors: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1841Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 lapas
...were formerly at the foot of the social scale, and who have been brought up to the common level hy a sudden revolution, cannot enjoy their newly acquired...that they are born equal, instead of becoming so. CHAPTER IV. THAT THE AMERICANS COMBAT THE EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUALISM BY FREE INSTITUTIONS. UESPOTisM,which... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1855 - 922 lapas
...of the community who were at the top of the late gradations of rank cannot immediately forget their former greatness ; they will long regard themselves...that they are born equal, instead of becoming so. I08 CHAPTER IV. THAT THE AMERICANS COMBAT THE EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUALISM BY FREE INSTITUTIONS. DESPOTiSM,which... | |
 | Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 lapas
...alone. Those, on the contrary, who were formerly at the foot of the social scale, and who have been brought up to the common level by a sudden revolution,...that they are born equal, instead of becoming so. CHAPTER IV. TEAT THE AMERICANS COMBAT THE EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUALISM BY FREE INSTITUTIONS. DESPOTISM,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1862 - 526 lapas
...other, and perpetuate in a state of equality the animosities which the state of inequality created. The great advantage of the Americans is, that they...that they are born equal, instead of becoming so. CHAPTER IV. THAT THE AMERICANS COMBAT THE EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUALISM BY FREE INSTITUTIONS. DESPOTISM,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 452 lapas
...sudden revolution, cannot enjoy their newly acquired independence without secret uneasiness; and 107 if they meet with some of their former superiors on...that they are born equal, instead of becoming so. CHAPTER IV That the Americans Combat the Effects of Individualism by Free Institutions DESPOTISM, which... | |
 | Thomas Pearce Bailey - 1914 - 396 lapas
...penetrates on every s1de into men's hearts, expands "there, and fills them entirely. . . . The'great advantage of the Americans is that they have arrived...and that they are born equal instead of becoming so. ... If the object be to have the local affairs of a dfstrict conducted by the men who reside there,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1980 - 402 lapas
...alone. Those, on the contrary, who were formerly at the foot of the social scale, and who have been brought up to the common level by a sudden revolution,...that they are born equal, instead of becoming so. That the Americans Combat the Effects of Individualism by Free Institutions When the members of a community... | |
 | Richard Orr Curry, Lawrence B. Goodheart - 1991 - 292 lapas
...with a quotation from Tocqueville, the intellectual hero of the "consensus" historians of the 1950s: "The great advantage of the Americans is, that they...without having to endure a democratic revolution; and they are born equal, instead of becoming so." Building on this statement, "surely one of his most fundamental... | |
 | William S. Dietrich - 1991 - 360 lapas
...the United States. "The great advantage of the Americans," proclaimed de Tocqueville, "is that they arrived at a state of democracy without having to...and that they are born equal, instead of becoming so."s Abroad, the destruction of the aristocratic social order and the ensuing social democratic transformation... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - 1993 - 148 lapas
...for granted by white Americans. To this extent Tocqueville's almost envious observation was accurate: "The great advantage of the Americans is that they...that they are born equal, instead of becoming so." That was not quite true in the economic arena, even in the more pastoral, enlightened eighteenth century,... | |
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