 ... shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting; such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes,...  Democracy in America - Stran 235avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1840 - 876 strani
...enervates, obtunds, extinguishes all free-will activities ; and reduces every nation to the condition of a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which...the government is the shepherd." • • • « " I think it is much easier to establish an absolute and despotic government among a people where equality... | |
 | 1840 - 1522 strani
...enervates, obtunds, extinguishes all free-will activities ; and reduces every nation to the condition of a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." * * * * ' ' I think it is much easier to establish an absolute and despotic government among a people where equality... | |
 | 1840 - 880 strani
...obtuuds, extinguishes all free-will activities ; and reduces every nation to the condition of a flack of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." * » * * " I think it is much easier to establish an absoluteand despotic government among a people where equality... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1843 - 348 strani
...it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock...animals, of which the government is the shepherd.' But who would not rather incline toward the common empire of the people, than submit to the dominion... | |
 | George Alfred Townsend - 1869 - 702 strani
...it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock...animals, of which the government is the shepherd." This is the remarkable prophecy of a French author, who has been accused of rebuking republicanism,... | |
 | George Alfred Townsend - 1870 - 702 strani
...it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock...animals, of which the government is the shepherd." This is the remarkable prophecy of a French author, who has been accused of rebuking republicanism,... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908 - 620 strani
...it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock...animals, of which the government is the shepherd.' But who would not rather incline toward the common empire of the people, than submit to the dominion... | |
 | 1928 - 806 strani
...minds and energetic characters cannot penetrate, enervating and stupifying the people until they become "nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."5 The National Association of Manufacturers, subscribing to this analysis,6 has exercised... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1994 - 206 strani
...but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.4 Government's Growing Grip By the 1960s, all of the governments of Western Europe, and to... | |
 | S. Jensen - 1973 - 296 strani
...but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious...animals, of which the government is the shepherd." Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America, 1835. A number of studies have projected an image of... | |
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