 All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it.  How America Goes to Warby Frank E. Vandiver - 2005 - 156 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1840 - 676 pages
...If it lead not to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently by their habits, All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and 220 the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science. One remedy, which... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1841 - 418 pages
...If it lead not to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently by their habits. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic...the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science. One remedy, which appears to be obvious when the ambition of... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1848 - 916 pages
...If it lead not to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently' by their habits. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic...is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish m This is the first axiom of the science. \ One remedy, which appears to be obvious when the ambition... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...If it lead not to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently by their habits. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic...the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science. One remedy, which appears to be obvious when the ambition of... | |
 | Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pages
...If it lead not to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently by their habits. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic...the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science. One remedy, which appears to be obvious when the ambition of... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1862 - 526 pages
...If it lead not to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently by their habits. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic...the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science. One remedy, which appears to be obvious when the ambition of... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1863 - 522 pages
...sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently by their habits. All those who seek to destroy tho liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that...the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science. One remedy, which appears to be obvious when the ambition of... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 452 pages
...If it lead not to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for It more gently by their habits. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic...the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science. One remedy, which appears to be obvious when the ambition of... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1904 - 470 pages
...more gently by their habits. All those who seek WAR NEWS From a painting by Richard Caton Woodville to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought...the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science. One remedy, which appears to be obvious when the ambition of... | |
 | 1912 - 270 pages
...(war) lead not to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently by their habits. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it." Lest these passages be considered garbled, we add that deTocqueville... | |
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