administration Quotes

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form... ...

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is... ...

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

"An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on."