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... ...

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

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

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

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

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... ...