With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
The nation that has the schools has the future.
We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.