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 Warby Frank E. Vandiver - 2005 - 156 pagesNo preview available - About this book
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 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... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 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... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 452 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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 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... | |
| Robert Strausz Hupé - 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... | |
| Roger Boesche - 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... | |
| Werner Peters - 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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