• The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

    Alexis de Tocqueville: The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
    "De la supériorité des mœurs sur les lois". Oeuvres complètes, Volume VIII, p. 286., 1831.