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

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