Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.


Chapter XVI. - Democracy in America, Volume I (1835) - Chapter XV-IXX

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.