...accounted the most acute and fair observer, that has ever written about our institutions and character. " I know no country in which there is so little true...of mind and freedom of discussion as in America." " I perceive," said he to an intimate friend, " that liberty, in this country, is a fact rather than...

...Sir Robert has thought proper to select. " I am not acquainted," writes De Tocqueville, " with any country in which there is so little true independence of mind, and so little freedom of discussion as in America. The authority of the king is purely physical ; it controls...

...Sir Robert has thought proper to select. " I am not acquainted," writes De Tocqueville, " with any country in which there is so little true independence of mind, and so little freedom of discussion as in America. The authority of the king is purely physical ; it controls...

...one of them.' If there be truth and justness in the following statement, it is tremendous indeed : "In America, the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion. Within these barriers, an author may write whatever he pleases', but he will repen t if he ever steps...

...investigation of tlie subject, to write on this country. " I am not acquainted," he says, "with any country, in which there is so little true independence of mind, and so little freedom of discussion, as in America. The authority of a king," he continues, " is purely...

...decision is irrevocably pronounced, a submissive silence is observed. ' I am not acquainted with any country in which there is so little true independence of mind and so little freedom of discussion, as in America. The authority of a king is purely physical ; it controls...

...investigation of the subject, to write on this country. " I am not acquainted," he says, " with any country, in which there is so little true independence of mind, and so little freedom of discussion, as in America. The authority of a king," he continues, "is purely...

...investigation of the subject, to write on this country. " I am not acquainted," he says, "with any country, in which there is so little true independence of mind, and so little freedom of discussion, as in America. The authority of a king," he continues, "is purely...

...well as upon the actions of men, and it represses not ' «* only all contest, but all controversy. I know no country in which there is so little true...of mind and freedom of discussion as in America. In any constitutional state in Europe every sort of religious and political theory may be advocated and...

...according to your own opinions, or your own thoughts, but as the majority wQL Mr. Tocqueville observes, " I know no country in which there is so little true...of mind, and freedom of discussion, as in America." Indeed, one cannot help being reminded of what Beaumarchais makes Figaro say upon the liberty of the...