• 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.

    Alexis de Tocqueville: 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.
    "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter XVI, 1835.