 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Aeronautics, Commercial - 1969 - 354 pages
...traditionally imbedded in Western values. A student of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville said that "the sufferings that are endured patiently as being...inevitable, become intolerable the moment it appears there might be an escape." I believe that "moment" is rapidly arriving in the big cities and I submit... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Public Works - 1971 - 286 pages
...traditionally imbedded in Western values. A student of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville said that "the sufferings that are endured patiently as being...inevitable, become intolerable the moment it appears there might be an escape." I believe that "moment" is rapidly arriving in the big cities and I submit... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 pages
...than the responsible custodian of its state's interests in a world of diversity. Reform, perils of: "Experience suggests that the most dangerous moment...government is usually when it begins to reform itself. Only great ingenuity can save a prince who undertakes to give relief to his subjects after long oppression.... | |
 | Jamie Glazov - History - 2002 - 286 pages
...eventually did understand: freedom could not be rationed. As Alexis de Tocqueville noted a century earlier, "experience suggests that the most dangerous moment...government is usually when it begins to reform itself. Only great ingenuity can save a prince who undertakes to give relief to his subjects after long oppression.... | |
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The sufferings that are endured patiently, as being inevitable, become intolerable the moment it appears that there might be an escape. 