stability Quotes

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant... ...

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers... ...

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.