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" War does not always give over democratic communities to military government, but it must invariably and immeasurably increase the powers of civil government... "
How America Goes to War
by Frank E. Vandiver - 2005 - 156 pages
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Democracy in America, Volume 4

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1840 - 676 pages
...Thus there is some risk of its causing, under another form, the disturbance it is intended to prevent. No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Not indeed that after every victory it is to be apprehended that the victorious generals will possess...
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The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions ...

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...by force of the supreme power, after the manner of Sylla and Csesar : the danger is of another kind. War does not always give over democratic communities to military government, but it must invariably and immeasurably increase the powers of civil government ; it must almost compulsorily concentrate...
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Democracy in America, Volume 2

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1862 - 526 pages
...there is some risk of its causing, under another form, the very disturbance it is intended to prevent. No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Not indeed that, after every victory, it is to be apprehended that the victorious generals will possess...
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Democracy in America, tr. by H. Reeve, Volume 1

Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pages
...Thus there is some risk of its causing, under another form, the disturbance it is intended to prevent. No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Not indeed that after every victory it is to be apprehended that the victorious generals will possess...
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The World's Great Classics: Democracy in America, by A. de Tocqueville

Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 454 pages
...Thus there is some risk of its causing, under another form, the disturbance it is intended to prevent. No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Not indeed that after every victory it is to be apprehended that the victorious generals will possess...
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Priorities for Peace in the Middle East: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs - Government publications - 1975 - 240 pages
...major mutual arms reduction. I am reminded of a passage from de Tocqueville's "Democracy in Action": "No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country ... all those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Legislative hearings - 1975 - 498 pages
...mutual arms reduction. I am reminded of a passage from de Tocqueville's "Democracy in Action" : "Xo protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country ... all those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the...
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Democracy and American Foreign Policy: Reflections of the Legacy of Alexis ...

Robert Strausz Hupé - Political Science - 228 pages
...on peace and war, and long before America joined the ranks of the Great Powers, Tocqueville wrote: No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Not indeed that, after every victory, is it to be apprehended that the victorious generals will possess...
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Theories of Tyranny: From Plato to Arendt

Roger Boesche - Political Science - 2010 - 508 pages
...hands of a bureaucratic and technofogical elite, and it subverts the habits of participatory democracy. "War does not always give over democratic communities to military government, but it must invariably and immeasurably increase the powers of civil government; it must almost compulsorily concentrate the...
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Society on the Run: A European View of Life in America

Werner Peters - Political Science - 1996 - 320 pages
...by force of the supreme power, after the manner of Sulla and Caesar; the danger is of another kind. War does not always give over democratic communities to military government, but it must invariably and immeasurably increase the powers of civil government; it must almost compulsorily concentrate the...
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