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Full Idea
Government is like everything else in this world: if it is to be preserved, it must first be loved.
Gist of Idea
If a government is to be preserved, it must first be loved
Source
Baron de Montesquieu (The Spirit of the Laws (rev. 1757) [1748], 04.05)
Book Ref
Montesquieu,Baron de: 'Selected Political Writings', ed/tr. Richter,Melvin [Hackett 1990], p.139
A Reaction
Nice one! Right now there seems to be a declining love for representative democracy, even though almost everyone endorses it.
| 6329 | People are hard to govern because authorities love to do things [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
| 19980 | If a government is to be preserved, it must first be loved [Montesquieu] |
| 19996 | A government has a legislature, an international executive, and a domestic executive [Montesquieu] |
| 3927 | Society prefers helpful lies to harmful truth [Hume] |
| 19820 | The state has a legislature and an executive, just like the will and physical power in a person [Rousseau] |
| 19827 | Law makers and law implementers should be separate [Rousseau] |
| 7228 | Individuals often do things better than governments [Mill] |
| 20254 | People govern for the pleasure of it, or just to avoid being governed [Nietzsche] |
| 20939 | What is the function of a parliament? Does it even constitute a part of the State structure? [Gramsci] |
| 22236 | The big question of the Renaissance was how to govern everything, from the state to children [Foucault] |
| 20506 | 'Separation of powers' allows legislative, executive and judicial functions to monitor one another [Wolff,J] |