5 Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville about law


  • Author Alexis de Tocqueville
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    [Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

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    By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

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    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.

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    There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

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