...administration is far less regular, less enlightened, and less skilful, but a hundred-fold greater, than in Europe. In no country in the world, do the citizens make such exertions for the common weal. I know of no people who have established schools so numerous and efficacious, places of public worship...

...am acquainted with no people which has established schools as numerous and as efficacious, places of worship better suited to the wants of the inhabitants, or roads kept in better repair."—De Tocqueville. t "In America, those complaints against property in general, which are so...

...far less regular, less enlightened, and less learned, but a hundredfold more authoritative than in Europe. In no country in the world do the citizens...or permanence of design, the minute arrangement of details,45 and the perfection of an ingenious administration, must not be sought for in the United...

...our eagerness to form clubs, to raise barns or town halls, to join together in one cause or another. "In no country in the world, do the citizens make such exertions for the common weal. I know of no people who have established schools so numerous and efficacious, places of public worship...

...such exertions for the common wealth. I know of no people who have established schools so numerous and efficacious, places of public worship better suited...to the wants of the inhabitants, or roads kept in Originally prepared for delivery at the 1972 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,...

...cooperative spirit of Americans especially fascinated Tocqueville.32 Writing in the 1830s, he said: "In no country in the world do the citizens make such exertions for the common weal. I know of no people who have established schools so numerous, places of public worship better suited...

...far less regular, less enlightened, and less learned, but an hundredfold more authoritative than in Europe. In no country in the world do the citizens...or permanence of design, the minute arrangement of details,46 and the perfection of an ingenious administration, must not be sought for in the United...

...such exertions for the common weal. I know of no people who have established schools so numerous and efficacious, places of public worship better suited...permanence of design, the minute arrangement of details, 1:' and the perfection of administrative system, must not be sought for in the United States: what...

...paean to participation of any sort. Rather, it is a recognition that civic engagement is productive: In no country in the world do the citizens make such exertions for the common weal. I know of no people who have established schools so numerous and efficacious, places of public worship...

...cooperative spirit of Americans especially fascinated Tocqueville.32 Writing in the 1830s, he said: "In no country in the world do the citizens make such exertions for the common weal. I know of no people who have established schools so numerous, places of public worship better suited...