 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 564 Seiten
...truth, and hazard the influence, of his statement, on such a reference. Again our author says: ' I know no country in which there is so little independence of mind, and freedom of discussion, as in America.' But observe, it is supported by the same reason, occult indeed,... | |
 | Louis John Jennings - 1868 - 356 Seiten
...that this source of virtue failed in political life. " I know of no country," he says in one place, " in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." And again he says, " Freedom of opinion does not exist in America." "I attribute the small number of... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1870 - 628 Seiten
...upon the will as much as upon the actions, and represses not only all contest, but ah1 controversy. I know of no country in which there is so little independence...mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. In any constitutional state in Europe, every sort of religious and political theory may be freely preached... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1898 - 990 Seiten
...minds of the Americans were formed upon one model, so accurately do they follow the same route." " I know of no country in which there is so little independence...mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." In the perusal of such passages as these, it must be remembered that at the period of Tocqueville's... | |
 | 1889 - 894 Seiten
...Literature, Science, art, anD VOL. LXI1L — APRIL, 1889. — No. CCCLXXVIII. THE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT. "I KNOW of no country in which\ there is so little...mind and real freedom of discussion as in/ America. In any constitutional state in Europe, every sort of religious and political theory may freely be preached... | |
 | William Alexander Foster - 1890 - 254 Seiten
...is loyalty to ourselves. No wonder. From the top to the bottom of our majority system of government there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion on the part of public men and journalists as to make one feel a degree of shame. Opinion halts timidly... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 646 Seiten
...upon the will as much as upon the actions, and represses not only all contest but all controversy. I know of no country in which there is so little independence...mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. In any constitutional State in Europe, every sort of religious and political theory may be freely preached... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1898 - 640 Seiten
...things which even a European, accustomed to arbitrary power, is astonished at. Then he complains that there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion. " Freedom of opinion does not exist in America," is one of his dicta. He attributes to the ever increasing... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1906 - 876 Seiten
...enmities and block one's way. This is in part what de Tocqueville means in one of his few severities, "I know of no country in which there is so little...mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." Professor Munsterberg evidently thinks Germany has more "inner freedom;" and even adds, "if I consider... | |
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. 
