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Tantum series juncturaque pollet

Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris 

So great is the power of linkage and order That even the mundane becomes important (Diderot)

The most important institutions should be the result not of deliberation, but of circumstances

The unalterable consequence, that no institution, truly great real, could be founded on a written law, since the men themselves, the successive instruments of its establishment, know not what it will become, and since insensible growth is the true sign of durability, in every possible order of things.

Law is not properly law, nor does it possess the true sanction of law, unless it eminates from a superior will

"every law, tending directly to favour population, without regard to other considerations, is bad."

Människan ond, auktoritet nödvändigt. Varje nation följer sin egen väg. Inget universalt statsskick.

"The bravest medicine against the most terrible disease of our age, that disease of banality which does not judge people and thoughts, but classifies them"

Kritik mot Joseph de Maistre