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.
Alexis De Tocqueville

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In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.
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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. 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.
Alexis De Tocqueville